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The americanist Fernanda Pivano and her struggle in Italy for "The Time Theatre" inspired by Allen Ginsberg, the Beats and the Hippies. By the author of Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991). In 2020 Istituto Luce Cinecittà produces a new version.

Ottavio Rosati directs the first psychodramas held on italian theaters. Both starting from plays by the Nobel Prize Luigi Pirandello's: "Questa sera si recita a soggetto" (Tonight we improvise) and "Ciascuno a suo modo" (Each one in his own way). Starring Zerka T. Moreno, wife and collaborator of Jacob Levi Moreno the father of psychodrama. Both with the collaboration of the Americanist Fernanda Pivano. The first (1983) for Teatro Stabile di Roma at Flaiano Theatre, with the participation of actors from the Living Theater. The second (1986) at Carignano Theater for Teatro Stabile di Torino, starring the Nobel Prize, Dario Fo who gives his voice to Jacob Levi Moreno. In Turin, Zerka Toeman Moreno performs the strange role of "La Moreno (che tutti sanno chi è)" and directs the psychodrama of Pier Luigi Pirandello, nephew of Luigi Pirandello and son of the painter Fausto Pirandello. The sociodrama about "Ciascuno a suo modo" triggers an organizational conflict and a social scandal similar to those that Pirandello imagined in his comedy set in the city of Turin. When the event's funding is in danger of being blocked by financial blackmail, Rosati goes to Naples and takes to Turin a Pazzariello, an advertising auctioneer who runs with his band through the streets of the city, denouncing the scandal. It is a winning turning point. Fifteen years later, Rosati will perform Fantasmi al Valle (2012) the socioplay of the third play of the Pirandello's trilogy: "Six Characters in Search of an Author". The magazine "Atti dello psicodramma" dedicates an issue to the event. This spin-off begins in 2002 in Sicily produced by the Teatro Stabile di Catania with Leo Gullotta in the role of Pirandello and will be concluded in 2012 at the Teatro Valle di Roma where in 1921 happened the stormy premiere of Six characters.

A script of the Televsion Italian Rai inspired by Il triplo psicodramma di Aldo Carotenuto (1994) episode of Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991) by Ottavio Rosati about the Aldo Carotenuto's best seller "Diario di una segreta simmetria" (1980). The book revealed the secret and dramatic story of the young Sabine Spielrein between Jung and Freud and the italian movie was to be directed by Nelo Risi, author of Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl (1968). Ottavio Rosati who was the historical consultant and the author of the dialogues of the film, invited Tania Di Martino to realize this difficult screenplay. After many versions and the translation of the script in English, in 1998 Risi was making the casting but the production was stopped by the new Rai President who considered this story too difficult for a TV audience. Some years later, Roberto Faenza and David Cronenberg made two popular films from Carotenuto's book. The screenplay for Rai Cinema, which emphasizes Jung's para psychological researches, should be turned into a movie.

Ipod-Plays School of Psychodrama interviews prof. Vezio Ruggieri about the relationships between body, psyche and theatre. The film contains extracts from "Da Storia Nasce Storia" the first television of real psychodramas photographed with many cameras as in cinema.

A short about the Roberto Capucci exhibition "Alla Ricerca della Regalità" at Venaria Reale. The first step of a project by Ottavio Rosati that goes on with the documentary The Forbidden Fashion (2019) and a movie about the famous couturier.

The psychodrama (never broadcasted but published with an interview) of the series Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991) where the analyst Aldo Carotenuto, author of the best seller "Diario di una segreta simmetria" (Ubaldini, Rome, Italy, 1980) plays three roles: Freud Jung and Sabine Spielrein. In 1998 the italian television Rai will invite Rosati to write A Secret Simmetry (1997), a script for a movie for Nelo Risi direction.

Gli Sporcosauri" (2008) is the video (produced by Plays) of an ecological socioplay conducted by Ottavio Rosati, conceived by Ezio Donato (professor of pedagogy at the University of Catania) and realized by the Teatro Stabile di Catania with financial support from the European Community.

After Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991) a series of psychoplays, Ottavio Rosati with his friend Alessandro Cecchi Paone, writes for a popular program of Rai 2, a series of family life stories in front of a dozen boys and girls sitting next to us to intervene on the themes and that of the spectators at home who sent the letters with the problems of the children to solve.