Eugenio Barba
Biography
Eugenio Barba is an Italian author and stage director based in Denmark. After completing high school at the Nunziatella military academy of Naples in 1954, he abandoned the idea of following his father into the military. Instead, in 1954, he emigrated to Norway to work as a welder and a sailor. He also took a degree in French, Norwegian literature, and history of religion at Oslo University. In 1961 he went to Warsaw in Poland to study theatre direction at the State Theatre School, but left one year later to join Jerzy Grotowski, who at that time was the leader of Teatr 13 Rzedow in Opole. Barba stayed with Grotowski for three years. Eugenio Barba created the Odin Teatret in Oslo 1964. The following year the Danish municipality of Holstebro invited Odin Teatret to create a theatre laboratory there.
Known For & Full Filmography2 Titles
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Documentary of the last visit of Eugenio Barba and the Danish multicultural company Odin Teatret to Buenos Aires and Uruguay in 2017 where more than 300 students and teachers from all over the country participated in the Anthropological Theatre Days and more than 6000 spectators shared the performances
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Self
Director/actor Eugenio Barba returns to Oslo, where he started Odin Teatret, to Opole, where Jerzy Grotowsky's " theatre of the poor" developed a new physical play style, to avoid communism's censorship. And to Holstebro, where Odin Teatrets presence has greatly influenced the city's development.