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Pippo Delbono (born 1 June 1959 in Varazze, Italy) is an Italian author, actor, and director.

Biography

Pippo Delbono began training in traditional theatre in Denmark,^[1] studying the principles of oriental theatre, through a rigorous work on body and voice.

Later, in Germany, Delbono was invited by Pina Bausch^[2] to follow her work. At the beginning of the 80's he founded the Compagnia Pippo Delbono, creating most of his works with them, from Il Tempo degli Assassini (1987) to La Gioia (2018).^[3]

He does not stage plays^[4] but, rather, total creations, devised with a stable group of actors whose number has grown through the years.

The encounter with socially marginalized people determines a turning point in his poetical research: that's how Barboni (1997) was born.^[5] Some of these actors – among them Bobò,^[6] deaf-mute, who had been kept in an asylum in Aversa, near Naples, for forty-five