Leo de Berardinis (3 January 1940 in Gioi â€" 18 September 2008 in
Rome) was an Italian stage actor and theatre director. He was an
important exponent of the Italian avant-garde theatre.Born in Gioi, a
village in southern Campania, de Berardinis grew up in the Apulian
city of Foggia. After his first experiences as stage actor in the
company of Carlo Quartucci, he started his collaboration with Perla
Peragallo and, in 1968, he collaborated to the play Don Quixote of
Carmelo Bene. During the 1970s, he moved to Marigliano, near Naples,
with Perla Peregallo, in which he created several plays of
improvisational theatre. In 1983 he collaborated with the Cooperativa
Nuova Scena of Bologna and staged several Shakespearian plays, as
Hamlet, King Lear and The Tempest. In 1987 he founded the company
"Teatro di Leo" (i.e.: Leo's Theatre), which produced shows, workshops
and meetings.In 1994 de Bernardinis directed the St. Leonard Theatre
of Bologna and, from 1994 to 1997, took over the artistic direction of
the theater's Festival of Santarcangelo di Romagna. On 4 May 2001 he
received the honorary degree of the University of Bologna, for the
academic discipline of humanities.On 16 June 2001, de Berardinis went
into a coma after a plastic surgery, due to the error of an
anesthesiologist. After seven years in a coma, he died in Rome on 18
September 2008.
Rome) was an Italian stage actor and theatre director. He was an
important exponent of the Italian avant-garde theatre.Born in Gioi, a
village in southern Campania, de Berardinis grew up in the Apulian
city of Foggia. After his first experiences as stage actor in the
company of Carlo Quartucci, he started his collaboration with Perla
Peragallo and, in 1968, he collaborated to the play Don Quixote of
Carmelo Bene. During the 1970s, he moved to Marigliano, near Naples,
with Perla Peregallo, in which he created several plays of
improvisational theatre. In 1983 he collaborated with the Cooperativa
Nuova Scena of Bologna and staged several Shakespearian plays, as
Hamlet, King Lear and The Tempest. In 1987 he founded the company
"Teatro di Leo" (i.e.: Leo's Theatre), which produced shows, workshops
and meetings.In 1994 de Bernardinis directed the St. Leonard Theatre
of Bologna and, from 1994 to 1997, took over the artistic direction of
the theater's Festival of Santarcangelo di Romagna. On 4 May 2001 he
received the honorary degree of the University of Bologna, for the
academic discipline of humanities.On 16 June 2001, de Berardinis went
into a coma after a plastic surgery, due to the error of an
anesthesiologist. After seven years in a coma, he died in Rome on 18
September 2008.
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