The Methuen Drama Anthology of Contemporary Italian Plays by ... - 9781350370470

The Methuen Drama Anthology of Contemporary Italian PlaysAuthor(s): Margherita Laera, Davide Carnevali, Emanuele Aldrovandi, Francesco Alberici, Magdalena Barile, Nalini Vidoolah Mootoosamy, Pier Lorenzo Pisano, Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, Valentina Diana, Atri Banerjee\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Methuen Drama\nISBN-13: 9781350370470, 978-1350370470\nSynopsis\nItaly is home to one of the most vibrant contemporary playwriting scenes in Europe, yet Italian dramatists are little known to English-language readers and audiences: discover their stories and perspective in English for the very first time.\n\n Written between 2013 and 2022 by award-winning authors, the plays in this collection document a theatre culture not only preoccupied with the personal dimension of intimate and family relations, good food and designer fashion, as some stereotypical views of Italianness would have it, but with deeply political, socially engaged matters .