Prampolini’s Teatro della Pantomima Futurista (featuring Folgore, Pirandello, Marinetti)

Abstract

The main argument of this essay is one of the most striking episodes among the theatrical researches in the first half of the twentieth century: the Teatro della Pantomima Futurista designed by Enrico Prampolini. Reading the theoretical and programmatic articles written by Prampolini, in addition to the chronicles of the time, I will try to retrace the origin and development of the project, focusing on the contribution provided by dramatists as diverse as Luciano Folgore, Luigi Pirandello and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.