Mario Fratti
Italian playwright (1927–2023) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mario Fratti (29 July 1927 – 15 April 2023) was an Italian playwright and drama critic. In his lifetime, he produced over 70 works, which were translated into over 20 languages and shown worldwide.[1] He was best known for writing the first script for the musical Nine.
Mario Fratti | |
|---|---|
| Born | 29 July 1927 |
| Died | 15 April 2023 (aged 95) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Playwright |
| Years active | 1959–2023 |
Life and career
Born in L'Aquila, Fratti graduated in foreign languages and literatures at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.[2][3] In 1962, Fratti presented his one-act play Suicidio at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, and Lee Strasberg, a guest of the festival, was impressed by it and invited him to stage it at the Actors Studio.[2][3] Fratti eventually decided to stay in New York, where he found work as a professor of Italian literature at Columbia University.[2][3] In his later life, he was named as professor emeritus of Italian Literature at Hunter College.[4]
Fratti was an avowed communist.[5] He died in his home in Manhattan on 15 April 2023, at the age of 95.[6]
Mario Fratti Award
Since 2014, the theater company KIT - Kairos Italy Theater together with the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo' of NYU and In Scena Theatre Festival have created the Mario Fratti Award in his honour.[7] The prize is awarded to an unpublished theatrical text by an Italian author. Among the winners are Carlotta Corradi, Pier Lorenzo Pisano, Emanuele Aldrovandi, Paolo Bignami,[8] the couple Chiara Boscaro and Marco Di Stefano,[9][10] Tobia Rossi,[11] Giorgia Brusco, Luca Garello and Andrea Cioffi.[12] After Mario Fratti's death, the award was renamed In Scena! Playwright Award[13]
Plays
- Il campanello (1958)
- Suicidio (1962)
- La menzogna (1963)
- Il rifiuto (1965)
- La gabbia (1962)
- L'Accademia (1964)
- La vedova bianca (1972)
- I Seduttori (1964)
- I frigoriferi (1964)
- Eleonora Duse (1972)
- La vittima (1972)
- Che Guevara (1970)
- L'ospite romano (1971)
- Mafia (1974)
- La famiglia (1972)
- Chile 1973 (1974)
- Six Passionate Women (1978)
- Nine (1981)
- AIDS (1988)
- Porno (199)
- Amanti (1991)
- Avventure erotiche a Venezia (Tangentopoli) (1996)
- Candida e i suoi amici (2001)
- Cecità (2004)
- I nove martiri (2009)
- LGBT (2011)
- Obama 44 (2011)
- Beata, la figlia del Papa
- Attori
- Terrorista
- Sete
- Anniversario
- Missionari
- Garibaldi
- American Dream
- Suicide club
- Dead Men's Bluff
- Brooklyn
- Hugo, ispirata a Hugo Chávez
- Paganini (Musical)
- Puccini (Musical)
- Dialogo con Marilyn
- Teatro dell'Imprevedibile
- Unpredictable Plays
References
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