Leo de Berardinis

Leo de Berardinis (3 January 1940 – 18 September 2008) was an Italian stage actor and theatre director. He was an important exponent of the Italian avant-garde theatre. and, in 1968, he collaborated to the play Don Quixote of Carmelo Bene. During the 1970s, he moved to Marigliano, near Naples, with Perla Peregallo, in which he created several plays of improvisational theatre.

On 16 June 2001, de Berardinis went into a coma after a plastic surgery, due to an error by an anesthesiologist. After seven years in a coma, he died in Rome on 18 September 2008. He died in Rome.

Works Plays:

1967: La faticosa messinscena dell'"Amleto" di William Shakespeare (with Perla Peragallo) 1968: Sir and Lady Macbeth (with Perla Peragallo) 1972: O' Zappatore (with Perla Peragallo) 1973: Sir and Lady Macbeth (II edizione) (with Perla Peragallo) 1973: King Lacreme Lear Napulitane (with Perla Peragallo) 1974: Sudd (with Perla Peragallo) 1974: (with Perla Peragallo) 1976: (with Perla Peragallo) 1977: Assoli (with Perla Peragallo) 1977: Tre Jurni (with Perla Peragallo) 1978: Avita Murì (with Perla Peragallo) 1978: Sciopero autonomo (with Perla Peragallo) 1979: De Berardinis - Peragallo (with Perla Peragallo) 1980: Udunda Indina (with Perla Peragallo) 1980: XXXIII Canto del Paradiso da Dante (with Perla Peragallo) 1981: Annabel Lee da Edgar Allan Poe (with Perla Peragallo) 1981: Leo De Berardinis Re 1982: Gethsemani 1982: William Shakespeare e il Conte di Southampton in ruoli invertiti 1982: Apocalisse 1982: Il cervello esploso 1983: Kiat'amore 1983: The Connection (by Jack Gelber) 1984: Amleto; Dante Alighieri. Studi e variazioni 1985: King Lear. Studi e variazioni; Il Cantico dei cantici; Amleto (II edizione) 1986: La Tempesta; Il ritorno, riflessi da Omero-Joyce 1987: Novecento e mille; La Tempesta (II edizione) 1987: Delirio 1987: L'uomo capovolto 1988: Macbeth; Novecento e mille (II edizione) 1988: Il fiore del deserto da Giacomo Leopardi 1988: Quintett da Orfeo, Empedocle, Eschilo, Sofocle, Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Rimbaud 1989: 1990: Metamorfosi 1990: Totò, principe di Danimarca 1991: L'Impero della Ghisa 1991: Lo spazio della memoria 1992: IV e V atto dell' "Otello" di William Shakespeare 1993: Totò, principe di Danimarca (II edizione) 1994: Il ritorno di Scaramouche di Jean-Baptiste Poquelin e Leòn de Berardin 1996: King Lear n. 1 da William Shakespeare 1998: Lear Opera da William Shakespeare 1999: Past Eve and Adam's