Artefacts

Due dozzine di rose scarlatte

Artefact Type:

theatrical piece

Description:
This 1936 comedy about marriage and infidelity is the emblem of escapist theatre, corresponding to the film genre of 'white telephones', responding to the need for escapism and light entertainment of the Fascist era.

First Performance Date:
1936-03-10
Author:
> Aldo De Benedetti
Director:
> Vittorio De Sica
Actor:
> Compagnia De Sica Rissone Melnati
Actor:
> Giuditta Rissone
Actor:
> Umberto Melnati
First Performance Theatre:
> Teatro Argentina
Theatre Location:
> Rome
Genre:
> Comedy

Tags: Totalitarian art Bourgeois intellectual Consensus Escapism Collectivity Popular culture Hegemony Totalitarian consent Cultural system or apparatus