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When we talk about theater books, we are mostly talking about texts, documents, topics, stories, dramas, and comedies, which publishers have always treated with passion. However, the pages often alternate without variation, because a theater book, first and foremost, should be read. But this is not always the case. Then there are illustrated theater books, rich in photographs, sketches, and renderings.
Our illustrated and narrated theater books are not only original, but also become effective tools for study and research, used not only by professionals, but also by teachers and students attending courses in set design, costume design, lighting design, and theater directing.
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BOOK THE MONTH
306 PAGES / 60 THEATRICAL SETS llustrated and narrated by David Thompson. With the contributions of: Hal and Daisy Prince, Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine, Susan Stroman, Jerry Zaks, Kenny Leon, Maritz Von Stuelpnagel, Micke Birbiglia, Seth Barrish, Kevin Moriarty, Christopher Ashley, John Rando, Evan Cabnet, Emily Mann.
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PIERLUIGI PIER'ALLI THEATRE DIRECTOR
Texts by CARLO MARIA CELLA, PAOLINO LIBRALATO AND DINO VILLATICO
All reality, according to Plato, is a shadow play: the figures that project those silhouettes are precluded, we don’t see them. So what if Macbeth were right? or Miranda? or Rosalind? Who, more than Shakespeare, has crossed the tenuous limbic threshold between dream and reality, between vision and things seen, between the desperate urge to restore order to a world out of joint (Hamlet) so to make sense of it and the defeat of Reason that has lost the heart of the matter? Pier’Alli navigates between parallel worlds, he pursues the appearance of reality as once did Menelaus and the entire Achaean army pursue in vain the phantom look-alike of Helen... Everything comes to pass. As does drama imagery. Especially drama imagery, which focuses for an instant on the passing of a moment in time, and that instant in time, when demonstrated, is already lost in the act of representing it. Allegory of what? Of the passing of time, of transformation, of no longer being part of life in the moment in which one remembers it or – vain illusion of perpetuating it – in which one represents it. Reality is on the surface of things, writes Nietzsche. Pier’Alli takes this literally while delicately shifting the focus of the concept: reality is in the image, or rather no, not in the image but in the appearance and disappearance of the image. The projected imagery, the films that are increasingly integrated with his stage productions, possibly constitute the supreme allegory, in as much as they represent, while devoid of enigma and without illusions, the illusion itself of appearing, of passing and of vanishing.
(Text taken from the book edited by Dino Villatico (Theatrical Critic)
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