Marco Paolini

Italian stage actor, theatre director, dramaturge and author

Marco Paolini, 2008

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

Personal background

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

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]

• 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

• Manila Paloma Blanca – Daniele Segre (1992)^[7]
• Caro diario – Nanni Moretti (1993)^[7]
• Il toro – Carlo Mazzacurati (1995)^[7]
• I piccoli maestri – Daniele Luchetti (1998)^[7]
• Ritratti: Mario Rigoni Stern – C. Mazzacurati and M. Paolini (1999)^[7]
• La lingua del santo – Carlo Mazzacurati (2000)^[7]
• Vivere – Franco Bernini (2001)^[7]
• A cavallo della tigre – Carlo Mazzacurati (2002)^[7]

Discography

• 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

• 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

1. (in Italian) Biography of Marco Paolini (International Institute for Theater Research)
2. (in Italian) Article about Marco Paolini on elapsus.it
3. (in Italian) Article Archived 2004-09-26 at the Wayback Machine on Encarta. Archived 2009-11-01
4. (in Italian) Ubu prizes
5. (in Italian) Infos on the Mercanti di Liquore official website
6. (in Italian) Works of Marco Paolini: theatre
7. (in Italian) Marco Paolini on mymovies.it
8. (in Italian) Sputi on antiwarsongs.org

External links

• Marco Paolini at IMDb
• (in Italian) Marco Paolini and JoleFilm official website