The playwright, director and actor Enzo Moscato, leader of the New Neapolitan Drama, which emerged after Eduardo De Filippo, died this evening at the age of 75 following a long illness. With a theatre written and performed in courageously unconventional forms, an archaic and ultra-modern language, a multilingualism all of his own that brought him to the attention of critics and public not only in Italy, Moscato is considered the interpreter of a new theatre of poetry, which recognizes its antecedents in the great Neapolitan and international authors and composers, such as Artaud, Genet, the cursed poets of the late '800s and Pasolini.
Moscato held the position of artistic director for the Teatro Mercadante - Stabile di Napoli from 2003-2006, for the International Theatre Festival - Benevento City Show from 2007-2009. In 1990 he created the Enzo Moscato Theatre Company, of which he was artistic director, with which he produced important productions: 'Birthday', 'Returnees', 'Minor Mode', 'Collect & Burn', 'Ronda of the Warned', 'Feast at the Celestial and Nubile Sanctuary', 'Thrown Eyes'. Born as Vincenzo Moscato on April 20, 1948 in Naples, in the Spanish quarters of Naples, in the eighteenth-century Scampagnato palace, after attending the classical high school 'Antonio Genovesi' in Naples, he graduated in philosophy at the University of Naples Federico II, qualifying in human sciences and history, with a thesis on the relationships between sexual liberation political movements and psychoanalysis. From 1975 to 1977 he taught philosophy and history in high schools in Naples and Oristano. In 1980 he began his activity in theatre that brought him to the attention of critics and public as an actor, author and director. Moscato also released five albums as a chansonnier/revisiter of the Neapolitan and non-Neapolitan song universe: 'Embargos', 'Cantà', 'Hotel de l'univers', 'Toledo Suite' and 'Minor Mode'.
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