ORMETE
Orality, Memory, Theatre
Project conception and Scientific direction: Donatella Orecchia and Livia Cavaglieri.
Promoted by ECAD (Judaism, Cultures, Dramatic Arts), in collaboration with the Central Institute for Sound and Audiovisual Heritage of Rome and the Actor's Library Museum of Genoa, ORMETE collects, preserves, studies, and shares the stories and memories of the protagonists of twentieth-century theatre.
Patronages: Department of History, Cultural Heritage, Education, Society (University of Rome "Tor Vergata") and the Department of Italian Studies, Romance Studies, Ancient Studies, Arts, and Entertainment (University of Genoa).
Scientific committee: Antonio Attisani, Gerardo Guccini, Laura Mariani, Lorenzo Mango, Valentina Valentini, Alessandro Portelli, Claudio Vicentini.
ORMETE focuses on the memory of theatre. And on history.
By using and adapting the methods and tools of oral history to a different context, ORMETE creates, collects, preserves, broadcasts, and studies narratives and memories of direct witnesses of the twentieth-century theatre.
ORMETE works on the memory of the theatre. And on relationships.
The relational specificity of oral sources, which, unlike traditional sources, are constructed based on questions and in the presence of the researcher, is particularly interesting in the case of theatre. Theatre bases its linguistic specificity on the live relationship between actor and spectator; oral sources base their methodological specificity on the live relationship between researcher and witness.
ORMETE works on the memory of the theatre. And on the dialogue between generations.
ORMETE involves teachers and students, brings together older witnesses and young graduates, asking the new generations to enrich the mosaic of memories and recollections of the scene with their questions.
ORMETE's interviews are collected on PATRIMONIO ORALE.
Project conception and scientific direction: Donatella Orecchia
Scientific consultancy:: Livia Cavaglieri
PATRIMONIO ORALE (oral heritage) is a digital collection of oral sources for the performing arts.
PATRIMONIO ORALE was established in 2012 to host and organize the complete catalogue of interviews conducted by the Ormete Project. It started as an academic research project but is structured to be accessible to a broader audience as well. The platform's primary goal is sharingof experiences, documents, and data. That's why we hope our project will interest other researchers who wish to share their experiences with us and join the network of collections that PATRIMONIO ORALE cares for. Detailed cataloguing and description improve knowledge and access to sources, wherever they are physically stored.
