Theatre of Societas Raffaello Sanzio

Chiara Guidi, Claudia Castellucci and Romeo Castellucci are founding members of Societas Raffaello Sanzio. Romeo is the stage designer and director; Claudia creates the choreographies; Chiara is the dramaturgical and vocal consultant.Joe Kelleher teaches in the School of Arts at Roehampton University, London. Nicholas Ridout is Lecturer in Performance at Queen Mary University of London. Joe and Nicholas are joint editors of Contemporary Theatres in Europe (2006).

'An exemplary study wrought from within Europe's most audacious theatre company.' – Alan Read, King's College London, UK

• Introduction Part 1: Makers and Spectators, Tragedia Endogonidia 2002–2004 1.1 Letters to Scott Gibbons 1.2 Making Space 1.3 System, Function and Workings for a Tragedy of Gold 1.4 On the Earth's Stage 1.5 Letters to Scott 1.6 An Organism on the Run 1.7 A Letter about the Goat that Gave its Name to Tragedy 1.8 1st Grammatical Exercise with 20 Amino Acids 1.9 Letters to Scott 1.10 From the Finalo Script of A.#02 1.11 Night, Writing, Gesture 1.12 The Form of a Blot 1.13 Letters to Scott 1.14 From the Final Script of B.#03 1.15 A Play of Grief 1.16 From the Final Script of B.#03 1.17 On Being There (In the Beginning)/On Not Being There (Berlin) 1.18 Letters to Scott 1.19 Storytime 1.20 Out in the Open 1.21 Images of an Episode 1.22 Letters to Scott, Marco and Cosetta 1.23 Modern Acting 1.24 Somebody, Anybody 1.25 Letter to Scott 1.26 From the Final Script of R.#07 1.27 Monkey Business 1.28 From a Conversation about Dramaturgy 1.29 The Italian Comedy 1.30 Letters to Scott 1.31 Earth and Glass 1.32 A Conversation about Dramaturgy, Contd. 1.33 A Conversation about Dramaturgy, Contd. 1.34 From the Final Script of L.#09 1.35 On the Idea of Crescita 1.36 Francesca and the Machines: On Crescita XIV Prato 1.37 From the Final Script of L.#09 1.38 A Theatre Dream 1.39 From Marseille Sketch 1.40 Letter to Lavinia 1.41 Asking for It 1.42 From the Final Script of M.#10 1.43 Beware What You Wish For 1.44 The Picture, the Place, the Drama, Us 1.45 To Live Episodically 1.46 From a Technical Script for C.#11 1.47 On Make-Believe 1.48 From the Final Script of C.#11 1.49 The Enchantment Part 2: Conversations 2.1 'The Theatre is Not Out Home': A Conversation about Space, Stage and Audience 2.2 A Conversation about Dramaturgy, Contd. 2.3 A Conversation about Pretence and Illusion 2.4 A Conversation about Composition 2.5 A Conversation about Rehearsal 2.6 A Conversation about Gesture 2.7 A Conversation about the Future Part 3: Disjecta Membra 3.1 Entries from a Notebook of Romeo Castellucci's