Leo de Berardinis (3 January 1940 Leo de Berardinis on the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani Theatre: Leo de Bernardinis is dead (Mediaset TGcom24) – 18 September 2008) was an Italian stage actor and theatre director. Leo de Berardinis (myword.it) He was an important exponent of the Italian avant-garde theatre. "Goodbye to the actor Leo de Berardinis: the rebel of the theater was in coma (la Repubblica)
Biography and career Born in Gioi, a village in southern Campania, de Berardinis grew up in the Apulian city of Foggia. After his first experiences as stage actor in the company of Carlo Quartucci, he started his collaboration with Perla Peragallo Leo de Berardinis and Perla Peragallo: Theatre as a Jam Session and, in 1968, he collaborated to the play Don Quixote of Carmelo Bene. During the 1970s, he moved to Marigliano, near Naples, with Perla Peregallo, in which he created several plays of improvisational theatre. An interview to Leo de Berardinis In 1983 he collaborated with the Cooperativa Nuova Scena of Bologna and staged several Shakespearian plays, as Hamlet, King Lear and The Tempest. In 1987 he founded the company "Teatro di Leo" (i.e.: Leo's Theatre), which produced shows, workshops and meetings.
In 1994 de Bernardinis directed the St. Leonard Theatre of Bologna and, from 1994 to 1997, took over the artistic direction of the theater's Festival of Santarcangelo di Romagna. On 4 May 2001 he received the honorary degree of the University of Bologna, for the academic discipline of humanities. "Honorary degree to Leo de Berardinis" at the University of Bologna website
On 16 June 2001, de Berardinis went into a coma after a plastic surgery, due to an error by an anesthesiologist. "Leo De Berardinis in serious condition" (la Repubblica) "Leo's life ruined by that doctor" (l'Unità) After seven years in a coma, he died in Rome on 18 September 2008. "The death of Leo de Berardinis" (Il Sole 24 Ore) He died in Rome.
Works Plays:
1967: La faticosa messinscena dell'"Amleto" di William Shakespeare (with Perla Peragallo) 1968: Sir and Lady Macbeth (with Perla Peragallo) 1972: O' Zappatore (with Perla Peragallo) 1973: Sir and Lady Macbeth (II edizione) (with Perla Peragallo) 1973: King Lacreme Lear Napulitane (with Perla Peragallo) 1974: Sudd (with Perla Peragallo) 1974: (with Perla Peragallo) 1976: (with Perla Peragallo) 1977: Assoli (with Perla Peragallo) 1977: Tre Jurni (with Perla Peragallo) 1978: Avita Murì (with Perla Peragallo) 1978: Sciopero autonomo (with Perla Peragallo) 1979: De Berardinis - Peragallo (with Perla Peragallo) 1980: Udunda Indina (with Perla Peragallo) 1980: XXXIII Canto del Paradiso da Dante (with Perla Peragallo) 1981: Annabel Lee da Edgar Allan Poe (with Perla Peragallo) 1981: Leo De Berardinis Re 1982: Gethsemani 1982: William Shakespeare e il Conte di Southampton in ruoli invertiti 1982: Apocalisse 1982: Il cervello esploso 1983: Kiat'amore 1983: The Connection (by Jack Gelber) 1984: Amleto; Dante Alighieri. Studi e variazioni 1985: King Lear. Studi e variazioni; Il Cantico dei cantici; Amleto (II edizione) 1986: La Tempesta; Il ritorno, riflessi da Omero-Joyce 1987: Novecento e mille; La Tempesta (II edizione) 1987: Delirio 1987: L'uomo capovolto 1988: Macbeth; Novecento e mille (II edizione) 1988: Il fiore del deserto da Giacomo Leopardi 1988: Quintett da Orfeo, Empedocle, Eschilo, Sofocle, Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Rimbaud 1989: 1990: Metamorfosi 1990: Totò, principe di Danimarca 1991: L'Impero della Ghisa 1991: Lo spazio della memoria 1992: IV e V atto dell' "Otello" di William Shakespeare 1993: Totò, principe di Danimarca (II edizione) 1994: Il ritorno di Scaramouche di Jean-Baptiste Poquelin e Leòn de Berardin 1996: King Lear n. 1 da William Shakespeare 1998: Lear Opera da William Shakespeare 1999: Past Eve and Adam's
See also Experimental theatre
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