Luigi Squarzina
Luigi Squarzina (18 February 1922 – 8 October 2010) was an Italian theatre dramatist and director. Luigi Squarzina was born in Livorno, Squarzina studied in Rome, at the Liceo Classico Tasso, where he had Vittorio Gassman as classmate. He got a degree cum laude in Law, then he graduated as a director at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Luigi Squarzina
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- Name
- Luigi Squarzina
- Born
- 18 February 1922
- Birthplace
- Livorno
- Died
- 8 October 2010
- Place of death
- Rome
- Nationality
- Italy · Kingdom of Italy
- Occupation
- playwright · writer · screenwriter · actor · director · dramaturge
- Fields
- theatre
- Education
- Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico · Sapienza University of Rome
- Honours
- Feltrinelli Prize
- Languages
- Italian
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He debuted as a stage director in 1944 with an adaptation of Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. In 1949, Squarzina debuted as a playwright with The Universal Exhibition, which was never represented in Italy due to censorship. After directing the Teatro Ateneo in Rome, in 1952 he co-founded with Vittorio Gassman the Teatro d'arte italiano ("Italian Theatre of Art"). Squarzina later directed the Teatro Stabile in Genoa between 1972 and 1976 and later the Teatro Stabile in Rome, from 1976 to 1983. Squarzina was also active as a scholar and as a director of the theater section of the Encyclopedia of Performing Arts by Silvio D'Amico. He was also an occasional actor, and for his debut performance in Francesco Rosi's The Mattei Affair he won the Silver Ribbon for best new actor.
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• Name — Luigi Squarzina • Born — 18 February 1922 • Birthplace — Livorno • Died — 8 October 2010 • Place of death — Rome
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Luigi Squarzina lived from 18 February 1922 to 8 October 2010 and was a writer, director and playwright. Luigi Squarzina was born on 18 February 1922; the birthplace is recorded as Livourne, Italie by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and as Livorno by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Luigi Squarzina died on 8 October 2010 in Rome.
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- 1.Rodolfo Di Giammarco. Addio a Luigi Squarzina una vita per il palcoscenico. La Repubblica. 8 October 2010.
- 2.Enrico Lancia. I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. 1998. 8877422211.
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- Fabio Nicolosi. Squarzina e Pirandello. Dalla matrice narrativa alla realizzazione scenic. Aracne, 2012. pp. 800. .
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