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Giuliano Scabia
Giuliano Scabia (Padua, 18 July 1935) is an Italian writer, poet and playwright. He has acted and written for the theatre, and composed narrative prose and poetry.

Biography
Giuliano Scabia was born in Padua in 1935. He currently lives in Florence. Writer, poet, playwright, and narrator of his own texts, he is the protagonist of some of the liveliest theatrical experiences of the last few decades.

He graduated in moral philosophy in Padua in 1960, with Ezio Riondato as his supervisor.

Following his first book of poems, Padrone e Servo (Master and Servant 1964) he wrote the text for the opera Diario italiano (Italian Diary 1964), composed by Luigi Nono . Working once again with Nono he wrote La fabbrica illuminata (the Illuminated Factory), for voice and magnetic tape, dedicated to the workers of the Italsider steelworks in Genova Cornigliano. The first performance took place at the Venice Biennale, International Music Festival (1964).

Scabia was part of Group 63 and one of the initiators of the Nuovo Teatro (New Theater). He wrote the show Zip Lap Lip Vap Crep Scap Plip Trip Scrap & La Grande Mam alle prese with la società contemporanea (Zip Lap Lip Vap Crep Scap Plip Trip Scrap & The Great Mam struggling with contemporary society), directed by Carlo Quartucci - Venice Biennale- International Theatre Festival (1965).

Written works
The paths of Scabia’s writing are manifold.

The poetry path starts from Padrone e Servo (Master and servant) and continues up to the Canti del guardare lontano (Songs of looking far ahead), by way of Il poeta albero  (The Poet tree)  and Opera della notte (Opera of the Night). The saga path includes the novels In capo al mondo (At the top of the world), Lorenzo e Cecilia (Lorenzo and Cecilia), and  L’Azione Perfetta  (the Perfect Action). The Nane Oca (Nane Goose) saga is formed by the trilogy Nane Oca, Le foreste sorelle (the Sister Forests) and Nane Oca rivelata (Nane Goose revealed).

The cycle of the Teatro Vagante (Wandering Theater), begins with All’improvviso (Suddenly) and includes Zip, Scontri generali (General Clashes), Commedia armoniosa del cielo e dell’inferno (Harmonious Comedy of Heaven and Hell), Fantastica visione (Fantastic Vision), Teatro with bosco e animali (Theater with Woods and Animals), Cinghiali al limite del bosco (Wild Boars at the Edge of the Woods), Commedia del poeta d’oro, with bestie (Comedy of the Golden Poet, with Beasts), Visioni di Gesù with Afrodite  (Visions of Jesus with Aphrodite), L’insurrezione dei semi (The Insurrection of the Seeds), Commedia di Aironi (Comedy of Herons), Canto del mormorio (Song of the Murmur), Opera del Sole sfolgorante (Opera of the blazing Sun) and many more, all in all almost 100 short and long texts, up until the recent Commedia di matti assassini (Comedy of Crazy Assassins), Commedia del risveglio (Comedy of the Awakening) and  Canto del Paradiso (Canto of Paradise).

Theatrical actions
One of the constants of Giuliano Scabia’s activities is that of designing texts or "theatrical actions" for specific people or groups, with whom to share cultural, political, artistic and human interests. This search for common ground and sensibilities evolved through professional theater until he met and clashed with Paolo Grassi, director of the Piccolo Teatro, in 1968. From then on Scabia’s theater developed outside traditional theatrical canons as he experimented with new places for happenings and out-of-the ordinary events, seeking the ferment of the "living language".

Scabia has always continued to experiment, both in the theater and outside, with prose, poetry and drama, continually putting the forms into question, metamorphosizing the language, convinced that "those with whom you sing together, change your singing" (coloro insieme ai quali canti modificano il tuo canto).

Beginning as always with his writing, he has created memorable experiences, such as the theatrical actions of decentralization in the districts of Turin, the actions in Emilia-Romagna and throughout the Po Valley and through his teachings as drama professor at Bologna University. These actions are described in Il Gorilla Quadrumàno, (1974), Dire fare baciare (1981), and in more than 50 "drama notebooks" written together with his collaborators / students). The most well-known is that of Marco, the gigantic blue horse taken to the Psychiatric Hospital of Trieste (1973), together with Vittorio Basaglia and Franco Basaglia, in support of the Basaglia law. It became the symbol of the desire for freedom  on the part of the inmates of the psychiatric hospital, a story told in "Marco Cavallo", Einaudi, (1976).

Among the models experimented and turned into fruitful prototypes of development we should mention: theater participation in various neighborhoods, schools, mental hospitals, mental health centers, projects on empty schemes, theater as narration, long-term actions, collective writing, theater in houses, the return in time as a dialogue on change, drama as an action, a search for new horizons, questioning the margins (peripheries / countries / abandoned paths to be reopened). Scabia taught Dramaturgy at the DAMS (Discipline delle Arti, della Musica e dello Spettacolo) of Bologna University from the academic year 1972/73 to 2004/05.

Works

 * Padrone & Servo, Caltanissetta: Sciascia, 1965 and Rome: D'Urso, 1965 (illustrated by Claudio Olivieri)
 * All'improvviso & Zip, Turin: Einaudi, 1967
 * Interventi per la visita alla prova de «L'isola purpurea» di Mickail Bulgakov, Milan: Arti grafiche Fiorin, 1968
 * Commedia armoniosa del cielo e dell'inferno, Turin: Einaudi, 1972
 * Teatro nello spazio degli scontri, Rome: Bulzoni, 1973
 * Forse un drago nascerà (with Marco Romizi, Camillo Rullo, Ortensia Mele), Milan: Emme, 1973
 * Il Gorilla Quadrumàno, Milan: Feltrinelli, 1974 (with Remo Melloni, Edoardo Sammartino, Giovanni Rinaldi, Alfredo Cavalieri, Andrea Landuzzi, Stefano Barnaba, Guglielmo Rossi, Donatella Stranieri, Licia Manini, Francesco Conversano, Paola Sobrero, Massimo Eros Marino, Giovanna Rogante, Paola Quarenghi, Luigi Donati, Aldo Sisillo, Monique Roulier, Krystyna Jarocka, Ortensia Mele, Isabella Selmi, Luisa Magnani, Mario Bestia, Silvio Leoncelli e Amilcare Vegeti)
 * Marco Cavallo. Una esperienza di animazione in un ospedale psichiatrico, Turin: Einaudi, 1976 (with Ortensia Mele, Federico Velludo, Vittorio Basaglia, Stefano Stradiotto, Vittoria Basaglia)
 * L'animazione teatrale, Rimini: Guaraldi, 1978 (with Eugenia Casini-Ropa)
 * Dire fare baciare. Viaggio dentro «Leonce e Lena» di Georg Buchner, Florence: La casa Usher, 1981 (in collaboration with Massimo Marino)
 * Il Diavolo e il suo Angelo seguito dalla Lettera a Dorothea, Florence: La casa Usher, 1982 (with photos by Sebastiano Papa and a note by Ferdinando Taviani)
 * Scontri generali. Tragedia della dialettica, Turin: Einaudi, 1983
 * Teatro con bosco e animali, Turin: Einaudi, 1987
 * Fantastica visione, Milan: Feltrinelli, 1988 (with an essay by Gianni Celati)
 * In capo al mondo, Turin: Einaudi, 1990
 * Nane Oca, Turin: Einaudi, 1992
 * Il poeta albero, Turin: Einaudi, 1995
 * Gloria del teatro immaginario. Commedia camminante, Udine: Centro Servizi e Spettacoli, 1997
 * Lettera ai cavalli di Trieste, Vaiano: Biblioteca Franco Basaglia, 1998
 * Lorenzo e Cecilia, Turin: Einaudi, 2000
 * L'insurrezione dei semi. Sentiero per attori ricercanti, Milan: Ubulibri, 2000
 * Lettere a un lupo, con nuove lettere, Bellinzona: Casagrande, 2001
 * Opera della notte, Turin: Einaudi, 2003
 * Visioni di Gesù con Afrodite, Milan: Ubulibri, 2004 (with introduction by Franco Quadri)
 * Il drago di Montelupo: cronaca del teatro e dello storico incontro fra il Drago e Marco Cavallo Corazzano: Titivillus, 2004 (with Pilade Cantini)
 * Opera del sole sfolgorante, s.i.: 2004 (illustrated by Riccardo Fattori)
 * Le foreste sorelle. Nuove straordinarie avventure di Nane Oca, Turin: Einaudi, 2005
 * Il tremito. Che cos'è la poesia?, Bellinzona: Casagrande, 2006
 * Nane Oca rivelato, illustrated by the author, Turin: Einaudi, 2009
 * La luce di dentro. Viva Franco Basaglia (with Peppe Dell’Acqua, Federico Tiezzi, Gianni Fenzi, Claudio Misculin), Corazzano, Titivillus, 2010
 * Canti del guardare lontano, Turin, Einaudi, 2012
 * L'azione perfetta, Turin, Einaudi, 2016
 * Canti brevi, Valverde (CT), Le farfalle, 2016
 * Canto del Paradiso, Florence, 2017, author’s edition in 300 numbered copies
 * Canto della rosa, Florence, 2018, author’s edition in 300 numbered copies
 * Il lato oscuro di Nane Oca, Turin, Einaudi, 2019
 * Una signora impressionante, Bellinzona, Casagrande, 2019