Piergiorgio Giacchè (Italy) is an anthropologist and author. As a researcher he has dealt with various socio-cultural problems such as youth conditions, deviance, mass communication, housing loneliness, cultural politics. He was a professor of Anthropology of Theatre and Performance at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the Universi- ty of Perugia. He was editor of Ombre Rosse, Linea d'ombra, La terra vista dalla luna and Lo straniero, journals founded and directed by Goffredo Fofi and is currently part of the scientific committee of the magazine L'Ethnographie published by the Laboratoire dl'Ethoscénologie of the Maison de Sciences de l'Homme - Paris Nord and is a collaborator of the monthly magazine Gli Asini.
This is a lecture by Piergiorgio Giacchè at the 3rd International Conference on Theatre Anthropology, "Odin Teatret and Theatre Anthropology in Greece", 17 and 18 March 2023. The conference was organised by: Theatre Laboratory of Drama and Speech Department of Theatre Studies; Co-organisers: Centre of Theatre Anthropology, Heraklion-Crete, Fondazione Barba Varley, University of Patras, Science and Technology Museum. In his speech, Giacchè traces a history of the relationship between theatre and anthropology, calling into question, in addition to those of Barba, the theoretical contributions of important scholars such as Goffman, Turner and Schechner.