Nel processo creativo l’autore del testo è il padre; la madre, gravida della parte, è l’attore; e il figlio è il ruolo da portare alla luce.

“Nel processo creativo l’autore del testo è il padre; la madre, gravida della parte, è l’attore; e il figlio è il ruolo da portare alla luce.” The expression presents theatrical creation as a process of gestation and birth: the playwright provides the text, the actor carries the part, and the role emerges through performance.

Creative Roles

The metaphor assigns distinct but connected functions to the collaborators. The playwright is figured as the father of the text; the actor becomes a mother, pregnant with the part; and the role is the child brought into the world. In this formulation, performance is not merely the delivery of a finished text: the actor’s work is part of the role’s coming into being.

Attribution and Context

The book places the statement beneath the heading “Il Drammaturgo e l’attrice bionda: la seduzione” and attributes it to Konstantin Stanislavskij’s Building a Character. Its compact family metaphor gives the creative relationship an embodied form, presenting authorship and acting as different contributions to the birth of a theatrical role.