Artefacts

Campo di maggio

Artefact Type:

theatrical piece

Description:
This historical drama, written by Forzano in collaboration with Mussolini himself, opens the ‘heroic’ trilogy, and is an example of propaganda theatre. It takes as its subject the notorious ‘hundred days’ which led to Napoleon’s final defeat.

First Performance Date:
1930-12-20
Author:
> Giovacchino Forzano
Additional Author:
> Benito Mussolini
Actor:
> Compagnia Za-bum
Actor:
> Memo Benassi
Actor:
> Enzo Biliotti
First Performance Theatre:
> Teatro Argentina
Theatre Location:
> Rome
Genre:
> Historical Drama

Tags: State art Totalitarian art Nationalism Anti-liberalism New Man Assent Consensus Collectivity Sacralization Totalitarian realism Mass culture Hegemony Totalitarian consent Historicity Public spectacle