{{Short description|Italian theatre director (1917–1981)}} {{Infobox person | name = Fantasio Piccoli | image = Fantasio Piccoli.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1917|03|24}} | birth_place = Milan, Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1981|10|27|1917|03|24}} | death_place = Milan, Italy | occupation = theatre director }} '''Fantasio Piccoli''' (24 March 1917 – 27 October 1981) was an Italian theatre director.
== Life and career == Born in Milan, the son of the author Valentino, in 1947 Piccoli founded and directed the stage company "Compagnia del Carrozzone" (also known just as "Il Carrozzone"), a company consisting of ten young actors (including Romolo Valli and Adriana Asti) who held stagings in about two hundred cities in three years.<ref name=bio>{{cite news|last1=Guido Davico Bonino|title=Morto il regista Fantasio Piccoli inventò teatro con un carrozzone|work=La Stampa|issue=254|date=28 October 1981|page=15}}</ref><ref name=Sansoni>{{cite book|last1=AA. VV.|title=Tuttitalia: enciclopedia dell'Italia antica e moderna|date=1964|publisher=Sansoni|page=33}}</ref> In 1950 he and most of his company moved to Bolzano, where Piccoli founded the Teatro Stabile, which he directed until 1966;<ref name=bio/><ref name="Sansoni"/> in Bolzano, he "put into practice his idea of an anti-realistic theater, founded on the primacy of the poetic language, and on the expressive autonomy of a transfiguring imagination."<ref name=bio/> At the Teatro Stabile he directed seventy four stagings, mainly based on Italian authors.<ref name=bio/>
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== Further reading == * {{cite book|last1=Massimo Bertoldi|title=Il Teatro Stabile di Bolzano: cinquant'anni di cultura e di spettacoli|publisher=Silvana, 2000|isbn=8882152022}} {{Authority control}}
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