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Piccolo Teatro, ''Life of Galileo''

Milan

Luciano Damiani, sketch for Life of Galileo.Beneath the stage, in full view, the winch inspired by the famous theatrical mechanical devices by Nicola Sabbatini with which the opening of the Brecht curtain was operated.It was a brilliant scenographical expedient with which Damiani conjugated the theater by Brecht with the seventeenth-century stage machines contemporaneous with Galileo.
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The Brecht curtain made of ASC - Sceno muslin was used as a support for projecting phrases ...
... that introduced the scenes.«In Life of Galileo the scene began out of the stage and a truss drawn by Leonardo da Vinci framed the portal aloft.The stage floor was the only perspective element, with an accented inclination ...»

«... in the container with orthogonal plan.Five beams departed from the truss to end against the wall in the background.The one in the middle was calculated so that they all five resulted similar in the volume.»
Luciano Damiani, sketch for Life of Galileo.Beneath the stage, in full view, the winch inspired by the famous theatrical mechanical devices by Nicola Sabbatini with which the opening of the Brecht curtain was operated.It was a brilliant scenographical expedient with which Damiani conjugated the theater by Brecht with the seventeenth-century stage machines contemporaneous with Galileo.
«The purpose was to avoid the ''protagonism'' of the central beam that one can find in Paolo Uccello's works. The scene had to result to the eye of the spectator on the same level, like a ''sheet of paper'' where the characters would be hacked without their own shades and without brought shades, and this was the idea and the great difficulty but also the beauty.»
Life of Galileo
Historical drama
Text
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht" class="linktxt">Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
Music
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Eisler" class="linktxt">Hanns Eisler (1898-1962)
First night
Zurich, Schauspielhaus, 9/9/1943
Scenography,
costume design
Luciano Damiani
Construction responsible
Aurelio Caracci
Stage direction
Giorgio Strehler
Staging
Piccolo Teatro di Milano
Season
1962 / 1963

Materials used in this production

ASC - Sceno

Muslin and canvas

Brecht curtains

Typology of curtain

Flat making

Fabric: tailoring types

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