Liberate Rame: An Archival and Practice-based Revival of the Creative and Political Labour of the Actress, Theatre-maker, and Activist Franca Rame

弗兰卡·拉姆(Franca Rame，1929-2013)是一位意大利演员、作家、戏剧制作人、档案员和政治活动家。今天，她最为人所知的身份是她的诺贝尔奖获得者丈夫、剧作家兼表演家达里奥·傅园慧(1926-2016)的主要合作者，结果是她对他们戏剧工作的关键贡献一直被忽视。本研究从社会再生产理论的视角重新审视了拉姆多方面的事业和生活，反映了近六十年的意大利文化和政治，以及她与福尔的多重合作关系，作为女权主义实践的形式。它主要通过研究古比奥的Fondazione Fo Rame和维罗纳的MusaLab Rame和Fo档案馆拥有的材料来做到这一点，Rame自己建立了这个档案馆。翻译关键的自传体和戏剧文本，包括档案馆持有的未出版的独白，以及通过合作者、朋友和家人的证词创造口述历史，提升了拉姆被边缘化的作品。随着每一章的发展，一系列以实践为基础的干预措施将以播客、网页、视频以及新课本、讲习班和表演的形式在网上提供。这些活动还将促进拉姆档案馆的发展和推广，以及交流活动，包括与拉姆·福档案馆、皇家中央演讲和戏剧学院、伦敦意大利文化研究所和其他文化合作伙伴共同举办的专门研讨会和探讨拉姆作品的公共活动。到目前为止，致力于弗兰卡·拉姆独立于达里奥·福的文学作品非常有限，这个项目代表了对剧院合作实践政治的女权主义重新评估，以及对档案馆政治的女权主义干预，解放了拉姆在剧院历史和记忆中沉默的声音。

Franca Rame (1929-2013) was an Italian actress, writer, theatre-maker, archivist, and political activist. She is best known today as the principal collaborator of her Nobel Prize-winning husband, playwright, and performer Dario Fo (1926-2016), with the consequence that her crucial contributions to their theatre work have been persistently overlooked. This research reassesses Rame's multi-faceted career and life through the lens of social reproduction theory, reflecting almost sixty years of Italian culture and politics, and her multiple collaborative relationships with Fo, as forms of feminist practice. It does so principally by exploring materials held by the 'Fondazione Fo Rame' in Gubbio and the 'MusaLab Archive of Rame and Fo' in Verona, which Rame herself established. The translation of key autobiographical and theatre texts, including unpublished monologues held by the Archive, and the creation of oral histories through the testimonies of collaborators, friends, and family, elevate Rame's marginalised work. Following the development of each chapter, a series of practice-based interventions will be made available online as podcasts, web pages, videos, and in the form of new texts, workshops, and performances. The interventions will also contribute to the development and promotion of the Rame's Archive, together with exchange activities, including dedicated symposiums and public events exploring Rame's work, organised with the Archive Rame Fo, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, the Italian Cultural Institute in London and other cultural partners. To date there is very limited literature dedicated to the figure of Franca Rame independently from Dario Fo, and this project represents a feminist reassessment of the politics of collaborative practice in the theatre, and a feminist intervention into the politics of the archive, liberating Rame's silenced voice within theatre history and memory.