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Enzo Moscato

Enzo Moscato

Enzo Moscato – biography

by Carlo Titomanlio
Enzo Moscato was born in Naples in 1948. He grew up in the Spanish Quarters, the beating heart of the essence of the city, but also the emblem and the synecdoche of its most profound contradictions and problems. Moscato himself recognises that it was during his childhood that he developed and interiorised a complex relationship with the Neapolitan soul: “all the Neapolitan culture I still carry around with me I absorbed in those ten years in the Quarters” (Moscato in Nadotti, 1995).
His family successively moved to the more modern area of Fuorigrotta, and Moscato studied philosophy and psychology (graduating in 1974 at the Federico II University in Naples). He then moved to Rome, and all of these events seemingly distanced him from his linguistic, cultural, affective roots. His first work for the theatre, Carcioffolà, premiered in the capital in 1980; and Moscato would have stayed in Rome, had it not been for the tragic circumstance of the earthquake, which shook the city of Naples in 1980. The devastating Irpinia earthquake in November of that year, which also seriously damaged the city of Naples, lead Moscato back to his hometown, which he has never abandoned since. In 1982 he staged Scannasurice, a sort of “infernal descent” into the shattered urban and moral landscape of the post-earthquake city.

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Writings by artists and interviews

Enzo Moscato, Per un giro di vita ( o di coscienza ) un po’ più largo di quello relativo ai pantaloni, «Sciami», nuovoteatromadeinitaly.sciami.com, 2015

Critical writings

Gioia Costa,Enzo Moscato: un passo indietro per avvicinarsi, «Europe», n. 924, April 2006

Giulia Calligaro,Una scrittura in maschera, «Quaderns d’Italià», 12, 2007, pp. 125-143.

Patricia Bianchi, Italiano, dialetti e altre lingue nel teatro della nuova drammaturgia napoletana, «Rivista di Letteratura teatrale», n. 2, 2009, pp. 139-156.

Photogallery

Enzo Moscato

photo by Fiorenzo de Marinis and Francesco Squeglia
Teatrography

Teatrography of Enzo Moscato, edited by Carlo Titomanlio

Filmography of Enzo Moscato, edited by Carlo Titomanlio

Discography of Enzo Moscato, edited by Carlo Titomanlio

Bibliography

Bibliography of Enzo Moscato, edited by Carlo Titomanlio

Useful links

Website of theater company Enzo Moscato