Artefacts

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Artefact Type:

theatrical piece

Description:
Futurist tragic synthesis with a sci-fi setting ahead of its time, written by the lesser-known Futurist author Ruggero Vasari, who had significant connections with the European avant-gardes. The play stages a dystopic representation of an ultra-technological society dominated by machines and robots, and revolves around the tragic opposition between the unstoppable technological and male-dominated civilization and a sort of atavic human and more feminine consciousness-identity.

First Performance Date:
1927-04-27
Author:
> Ruggero Vasari
Director:
> Marie Louis Van Veen
Music Composer:
> Edouard Autant
Music Composer:
> Silvio Mix
Set Designer:
> Vera Idelson
First Performance Theatre:
> Teatro Art et Action
Theatre Location:
> Parigi
Genre:
> Futurist Tragic Synthesis

Tags: Cultural modernity Autonomy Avant-gardism Internationalism Modern realism Cosmopolitanism Total work of art Aesthetic modernity Cultural critique Aesthetic critique