Jewish Theatre Making in Italy in the Renaissance
Erith Jaffe-Berg, University of California, Riverside
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Thursday, March 9, 5:00-6:00 pm
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In this talk, Erith Jaffe-Berg will explore the many ways Jewish people in Renaissance Italy played a role in making theatre, both for their own community and for the larger communities around them. Tracing the beginnings of theatre on the Italian peninsula to the late fifteenth century, Prof. Jaffe-Berg will then show how theatre developed in the city of Mantua to become an increasingly elaborate activity.
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Bio: Erith Jaffe-Berg is a Professor of theatre at the department of theatre, film and digital production at the University of California at Riverside. Her research focuses on the commedia dell’arte and performances by minority groups in Early Modern Italy. She is the author of three books: The Multilingual Theatre of Commedia dell’Arte (2008), Commedia dell’Arte and the Mediterranean: Charting Journeys and Mapping “Others” (2015) and Jewish Theatre Making in Mantua, 1520-1650 (2022). She is a member of the Son of Semele Theatre Ensemble (SOSE), an award-winning, LA-based theatre company (www.sonofsemele.org) and Theatre Dybbuk (www.theatredybbuk.org). For her work, she has been awarded a UCR Distinguished Teaching Award, a UC Humanities Research Institute fellowship, a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation grant, a National Endowment for the Humanities grant as well as a grant from the Canadian embassy.
Co-sponsored by Jewish Studies at UCI