Ridefinire o rovesciare il canone? Una non-drammaturga: Franca Rame

This paper begins with a provocative denial of Franca Rame’s identity as a playwright, in order to focus, through the study of documents, on the concrete practices of collaboration and co-authorship characteristic of the work of Franca Rame and Dario Fo. Their individual contributions are in fact rarely distinguishable within a work that is always a joint endeavour and always developed in a dialectical relationship with the stage. This allows us to emphasise how creative practices in theatre are, in any case, always collaborative, thereby underpinning the importance of moving beyond the idea of a canon that celebrates individual identities, in accordance with the model of the subject typical of modernity – autonomous and ‘overbearing’ – and of promoting a more generative model of subjectivity in relation to others, open to dialogue and collaboration, including creative collaboration.