- For La Stampa: "the theatrical-television success of the year". Spin off of Giocare il sogno, filmare il gioco (1990), a format by Ottavio Rosati for Rai3 (Italy) that realizes in 1991 the Jacob Levi Moreno experiment of Le Psychodrame (1956) filmed by Roberto Rossellini in 1956 in France.
- Five groups of volunteers, selected by italian televison Rai3 (director Angelo Guglielmi) with the Faculty of Psychology of Rome after a radio ban, climb the Torino hill of Superga. They find a soundstage.built in a therapeutic community protected by the forest. The civil genius dismounts the tracks to pass the rai's buses under the rack railway tunnel. While the machinists of the Teatro Stabile di Torino and Teatro Regio download scenes and equipment from their warehouses, a musician tunes his instruments. From Rome an expert of Foulkes group-analysi supervises the dynamics set-setting. For the first time in the history of television the meaning of a story, a dream and a facial expression will find a virtually infinite number of witnesses and interpreters: theatrical and analytical. Reality show seeks the meaning and dignity of a story thanks to a television shot aimed at a deep analysis of the dynamics thanks to psychodrama, the group meeting in which the participants meet to express themselves, as well as in words, through action, body and images Fifty years after the theoretical formulation of Psichocinema by Jacob Levi Moreno this new format realized by Ottavio Rosati completes Le Psychodrame (1956) the experiment directed in 1956 in Paris by Roberto Rossellini for RTF, the France television. An experiment never broacasted that in 2018 was discovered in the archives of Anne Schutzenberger and has been published in a DVD by Istituto Luce Cinecittà in 2019. The book about Da Storia Nasce Storia published by Rai Eri, with the transcription and commentary of psicoplay, allows the reader to retrace them together with their director and analyze them. In his comment Ottavio Rosati presents the techniques used for the staging by subject, explores the dynamics of the group and the conflicts between the ethics of spontaneity and the conventions of a television production. Finally it reveals the emotions of those who direct a psychoplay, its blind spots, the how and the why of missed acts, errors and resentments. As the reviews to the program show (collected in a section of the site) we are faced with a new media format: a series of surprise stories that have thrilled the public like a novel, a film or a comedy.
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