Una pièce ritrovata negli archivi della Radiodiffusion – Télévision Tunisienne: al-Rašīd wā Šarlamān di ‘Abd al-Razzāq Karabākah
(A play found in the archives of Radiodiffusion – Télévision Tunisienne: al-Rašīd wā Šarlamān by ‘Abd al-Razzāq Karabākah)
in La rivista di Arablit, a. I, n. 2, dicembre 2011, pp. 51-73.
After a brief overview of the establishment and development of Tunisian musical theatre, this article focuses on an inedited musical play written by one of the most prominent figures of Tunisia’s theatrical renaissance. The themes, the style and the language traced in this text are typical of the nationalist trend in standard Arabic. This study analyses the above mentioned features of the play, but it also aims at highlighting the original elements that make it a masterpiece of Tunisian theatre, in spite of the scarce attention it received by both local and foreign scholars. Moreover, this article includes an Italian translation of the text and some images of the original manuscript found in the RTT archives.
