Vincenzo Tieri, between theatre and politics in Italy in the first half of the twentieth century

Abstract

The article offers a renewed interpretative gaze on Vincenzo Tieri, a not secondary figure of the Italian theater of the twentieth century. From the first experiences, in amateur journalism and theater, to full artistic maturity in Rome. Here the debut in theatrical writing, which was followed by a decade dedicated to criticism. Then the success, with Taide, his most fortunate comedy, in 1932. To follow, his work as a screenwriter and political commitment in Giannini’s Fronte dell’Uomo Qualunque and in the Assemblea Costituente. Institutional positions, as a member of the broadcasting supervision commission and chairman of the SIAD, chairman of the IDI and commissioner of the Dor Section of the SIAE. After the war he measured himself with directing and directed the Piccolo Teatro di Palermo in the two-year period 1955-57. In 1959, he resumed journalistic activity as a theater and television critic, on «Telesera» and «Il Tempo», until his death on January 4, 1970.