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Virginia Woolf is a feminist icon whose work has been taken up in mainstream, mass culture. The Italian actress and dramatist Laura Curino, one of the founders of Laboratorio Teatro Settimo (1974–2002),1 has added a solo performance to the cultural industry that is Woolf: Una stanza tutta per me/A Room of My Own (Turin, February 2005; national tour of central and northern Italy). Curino’s performance neither seeks to bolster Woolf’s iconic status in mainstream terms, nor sits in an experimental performance tradition, like the versions of Orlando by Sally Potter and Bob Wilson, for example.2 Her purpose is more ethical and political, drawing on the personal and on feminism, while formally being indebted to the practice of narrative theatre (teatro narrazione).
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A feminist concept of the ‘narratable self is central to Italian philosophical discourse and is one that explores the relation between subjectivity and nanation’. See Adriana Cavarero, Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood (London: Routledge, 2000 [1997]).
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (London: Penguin Books, [1929] 1993), pp. 102–3.
Liliana Rampello, Il canto del mondo reale. Virginia Woolf La vita nella scrit-tura (Milano: Il Saggiatore, 2005), pp. 144
Elaine Showalter, A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing (Princeton, NT: Princeton University Press, 1977).
Jill Dolan, Utopia in Performance. Finding Hope at the Theatre (Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2005), pp. 2
The problem is periodically analysed and denounced by sociological studies and debated in public discourse. See A. Cavallo, A. De Lillo and C. Buzzi, Giovani del nuovo secolo (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2002)
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Gandolfi, R. (2007). Giving Back to Judith: Laura Curino’s Una stanza tutta per me/A Room of My Own. In: Aston, E., Case, SE. (eds) Staging International Feminisms. Studies in International Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287693_10
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