Tiago Rodrigues's Coro degli amanti and Braudel's Longue Durée in Italian Theatre

Portuguese dramatist Tiago Rodrigues's play Coro degli amanti is being staged in Italy, framed by an essay on Fernand Braudel's concept of the longue durée. The French historian's 1958 text Histoire et sciences sociales. La longue durée argues that traditional history has favored the short time of the event—sudden moments of rupture, interruption, and transition from one state to another—which allow a clear line to be drawn between a presumed 'before' and an equally presumed 'after.' This watershed occurrence colonizes contemporary consciousness precisely because it is perceptible and loud, yet such manifest visibility can be insidious: beneath, behind, and around it operate economic, social, geographic, emotional, and mental structures at far slower rhythms. Braudel calls short time 'the most capricious, the most deceptive of durations.' The piece Coro degli amanti, written by the Portuguese playwright Tiago Rodrigues, has been brought to the stage in recent days. The article is by Maria Nadotti and Anita Romanello, published on Friday, 16 October 2026 at 03:05.