Departures of note

Carla Tatò was an Italian actress who devoted more than fifty years to experimental theater and cinema, becoming one of the most original and radical figures of Italian research theater. Born in Rome on 3 January 1947, she studied set design at the Accademia di Belle Arti before making her professional debut in the 1960s in Carmelo Bene's company, appearing in productions such as "Amleto o le conseguenze della pietà filiale" and "Salvatore Giuliano, vita di una rosa rossa." She went on to collaborate with leading figures of twentieth-century Italian theater including Roberto Guicciardini, Franco Parenti, Gianfranco De Bosio, and Maurizio Scaparro.

In 1970 she co-founded the Teatro di Quartiere in Centocelle with Dacia Maraini, and the following year helped launch the Teatro di Strada alongside Gian Maria Volonté, Flavio Bucci, and Antonio Salines, a season in which artistic experimentation was closely tied to civic and political engagement. Her film work included roles in Marco Bellocchio's "Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina," Mario Monicelli's "Vogliamo i colonnelli," and Dario Argento's "Le cinque giornate," as well as Luca Ronconi's television "Orlando furioso."

In 1973 she met director Carlo Quartucci, beginning an artistic and personal partnership that lasted over forty years until his death in 2019. Together they developed the itinerant "Camion" project bringing theater to peripheries, squares, and small towns, and later the interdisciplinary "Zattera di Babele" initiative. Tatò repeatedly interpreted and reworked the Ibsen figure of Nora Helmer, and remained a recognizable, irrepressible presence in Italian experimental theater until her death in Rome on 13 August 2026 at the age of 79.