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Marco Paolini

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Marco Paolini
Born (1956-03-05) 5 March 1956 (age 68)
Belluno, Italy
OccupationStage actor, theatre director, dramaturge and author
NationalityItalian
GenreNarrative theatre
Civil theatre
Website
www.jolefilm.com
Marco Paolini, 2008

Marco Paolini (born 5 March 1956) is an Italian stage actor, theatre director, dramaturge and author.[1]

Personal background

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Paolini is the son of a railroad engineer and a housewife from Belluno, Italy. In the 1970s, he moved to Treviso and started working in theatre.[1]

Professional background

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Paolini's repertory includes civil theatre.[2] His performances usually consist of monologues with frequent use of the Venetian language, irony and satire. Inspired by Dario Fo, he is an Italian exponent of narrative theatre.[2][3]

Until 1994, Paolini worked with various theatre groups, including Teatro degli Stracci, Studio 900 of Treviso, Tag Teatro of Mestre in Venice and Laboratorio Teatro Settimo.[1] In 1995, received the Ubu Prize for writing Il racconto del Vajont (translated: The Vajont Tale), which was dedicated to the disaster of the Vajont Dam in Italy. The ceremony aired on Rai 2 Italian television.[2][4]

Since 1999, he has produced his own works with his company JoleFilm. He has also collaborated with the Italian folk band I Mercanti di Liquore, along with the lead singer, Lorenzo Monguzzi.[5]

Theatre[6]

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  • Album teatrali (five tales from 1987 to 1999)
  • Il racconto del Vajont (1994)
  • Appunti forestali (1996)
  • Il milione – Quaderno veneziano di Marco Paolini (1997)
  • Appunti foresti dal Milione quaderno veneziano (2002)
  • I Bestiari (four tales from 1998 to 1999)
  • I-TIGI Canto per Ustica (dedicated to the Ustica Massacre) (2000)
  • Parlamento chimico – Storie di plastica (2001)
  • Song no. 32 (2003)
  • Karma-Kola (2006)
  • Teatro Civico, sei monologhi per Report (six tales, 2003)
  • Album dal teatro alla televisione (13 tales, 2005)
Marco Paolini after the piece ITIS Galileo in Teatro Ponchielli of Cremona, jan., 11th, 2012.
  • Miserabili – Io e Margaret Thatcher (2007)
  • Il Sergente (inspired by Il sergente nella neve (1953) by Mario Rigoni Stern) (2007)
  • Album d'Aprile (2008)
  • La macchina del capo (Racconto di Capodanno) (2009)
  • Ausmerzen (2012)
  • Itis Galileo (2012)

Filmography

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Discography

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  • Marco Paolini legge Ernesto Calzavara (2001)
  • Sputi, with the "Mercanti di Liquore" (2004)[8]
  • Marcovaldo di Calvino letto da Paolini (Audiobook with "L'espresso") (2006)
  • Miserabili with the "Mercanti di Liquore" (2008)[5]

Bibliography

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  • Presotto, Carlo. L'isola e i teatri, Bulzoni (2001)
  • Cannella, Claudia. "Dossier Teatro di Narrazione," in Hystrio (2005)
  • Guccini, Gerardo. La bottega dei narratori, Rome: Dino Audino editore (2005)
  • Soriani, Simone. "Dario Fo, il teatro di narrazione, la nuova performance epica. Per una genealogia di un quasi-genere," in Forum Italicum (2005)
  • Perissinotto, Cristina. "Polo, Paolini e Venezia: riflessioni lagunari," in Italica (2005)

References

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