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Anno XVII , n° 2, Dicembre 1999 ( Contributi ) pag. 89-98

ENRICO CAVACCHIOLI:
THE BIRD OF PARADISE AND METATHEATER
MICHAEL VENA
Southern Connecticut State University,
New Haven, Connecticut
Enrico Cavacchioli came to the theater after an early experiment with the futurist movement, of which he was a charter member along with Filippo T. Marinetti. That background is manifest in his early poetry as well as in a number of his plays, including The Bird of Paradise, which completes an important first cycle of grotesque drama and poetics1. This particular work, written as a "confession in three acts" in 1918 and staged at the Teatro Carignano in Turin on March 19, 1919, is widely regarded as the most important play by Enrico Cavacchioli. [...]
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