Futurism: 25 Powerful Theatre Resources for the Intelligentsia

Futurism: 25 Powerful Theatre Resources for the Intelligentsia

The Futurism movement began in Italy in 1909 with Filippo Marinetti and The Futurist Synthetic Theatre Manifesto. Futurist performance evenings, known as ‘serate’, were a mixture of poetry readings, visual art displays, performed plays and most important of all, manifesto readings. The Futurist play was often frighteningly short (sometimes only a moment or two in duration).