Set the stage!: teaching Italian through theater

Introduction / Nicoletta Marini-Maio and Colleen Ryan-Scheutz

Prologue: Theater performance with American students / Dacia Maraini

Authors, texts, and innovative movements: an overview of the Italian theatrical canon / Pietro Frassica

Acting Italian: from the piazza to the stage / William Van Watson

The theatrical workshop in the Italian curriculum / Salvatore Bancheri

Creative connections: the theater practicum and the integration of language and literature study / Francesca Savoia

Theater texts and techniques in the high school classroom / Laura Colangelo and Colleen Ryan-Scheutz

Epic theater, comic mode: understanding Italian society through the works of Dario Fo and Franca Rame / Walter Valeri

Commedia dell'Arte's techniques: theater research and Italian language interplay / Gian Giacomo Colli

Opera as theme, opera as theater: a content-based approach to the teaching of Italian language and culture / Daniela Noé-Le Sassier and Frances Boyd

Full-scale play production: filling the "empty space" between language and literature with Fo and Pirandello / Nicoletta Martini-Maio

Community, culture, and body language: staging the female voice in the Italian drama workshop / Antonella Del Fattore-Olson

Proficiency and performance: assessing learner progress in the Italian theater workshop / Colleen Ryan-Scheutz

Afterward: an interview with Dario Fo and Franca Rame. Thoughts on theater, engagement, and the comic. Examples for a new pedagogy / Walter Valeri.