In Umbria, the “Sega la vecchia” is a form of popular theater with itinerant begging, played during the mid-Lent. Companies – composed of fifteen to twenty young male peasants – move house to house, repeating their show until dawn for getting eggs and wine in return. In the most common regional variants, the plot of the representation is centered on the scene where the two woodsmen, “knock down” and then try to saw the old woman which, sometimes, is at the same time an oak tree. The old husband arrives looking for the spouse, and then he despairs of seeing her wounded and “sawed” at death’s door. At this point, often after the intervention of the police and the identification of responsibilities, therapeutic operators (that are the pharmacist, the doctor, and nurses) riding the donkey, take the stage to cure the dying old woman which, however, in some cases recovered only after the extreme unction of the priest, whereas in other cases she literally goes in the arms of “Maravalle”, the devil. The aim of our work is to preserve, protect and document forms that are dying and also think about the new conditions of representation.

意大利的非物质文化遗产研究 。翁布里亚的“塞加拉维奇亚”民间戏剧

Parbuono, Daniele
2020

Abstract

In Umbria, the “Sega la vecchia” is a form of popular theater with itinerant begging, played during the mid-Lent. Companies – composed of fifteen to twenty young male peasants – move house to house, repeating their show until dawn for getting eggs and wine in return. In the most common regional variants, the plot of the representation is centered on the scene where the two woodsmen, “knock down” and then try to saw the old woman which, sometimes, is at the same time an oak tree. The old husband arrives looking for the spouse, and then he despairs of seeing her wounded and “sawed” at death’s door. At this point, often after the intervention of the police and the identification of responsibilities, therapeutic operators (that are the pharmacist, the doctor, and nurses) riding the donkey, take the stage to cure the dying old woman which, however, in some cases recovered only after the extreme unction of the priest, whereas in other cases she literally goes in the arms of “Maravalle”, the devil. The aim of our work is to preserve, protect and document forms that are dying and also think about the new conditions of representation.
2020
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