With a chapter entitled “On stage without a script: the theater workshop for
professional training“, Tiziana Tesauro contributed to the publication of the book “Theaters and the Public Sphere in Globalized and Digitalized Society” edited by Ilaria Riccioni of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

“What is the role of theater in contemporary society? How has the social function of performance changed in the age of virtual reality? What new spaces has it acquired and what new functionalities have emerged? The disciplinary reflections that compose this volume emerge from theoretical and empirical data oriented toward broadening the sociological perspective by extending it to the social functions of performance and to the transformative and political potential unleashed by artistic forms, in this case theater.
The meaning and value of this volume lie in presenting a plurality of theoretical reflections and research that demonstrate the power of social engagement of performance, not as mere entertainment, but as a collective therapeutic form, as a stimulus for reflection at various levels, both scientific and cultural, and for civil resistance. Furthermore, the texts reveal the need to rediscover the value of cultural institutions in order to rethink them in light of a multiple social urgency: both for the construction of the collective fabric and for the institutional role of mediation, listening, and restitution in creative-cultural terms of the needs of the social context of which they are an expression.”