Introduction to the 2026 issue of “Teatro e Storia”

Mirella Schino

Mirella Schino has taught Theatre and Performance Studies at the Universities of Turin, L’Aquila, and Roma Tre. She has been the editor-in-chief of Teatro e Storia since 2002. She established the Odin Teatret Archives, now housed at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, with a duplicate collection held at the Bernardini Library in Lecce. Her publications include Il teatro di Eleonora Duse (1992 and 2008); Il crocevia del ponte d’Era. Storie e voci da una generazione teatrale. 1974–1995 (1996); Racconti del Grande Attore (2004 and 2016); Alchemists of Stage. Theatre Laboratories in Europe (2009; Italian edition 2009; Brazilian edition 2012); L’età dei maestri. Appia, Craig, Stanislavskij, Mejerchol’d, Copeau, Artaud e gli altri (2017); The Odin Teatret Archives (2018; Italian edition 2015); Eleonora Duse. Storia e immagini di una rivoluzione teatrale (2023; Russian edition 2024); and The Mystery of Eleonora Duse. Techniques, Strategies, Magic (2026).