Tempi di percorrenza di Via del Popolo. Il teatro della memoria di Saverio La Ruina.

The paper delves into the pièce Via del Popolo, an autobiographical work by playwright and director Saverio La Ruina, set in the eponymous street of Castrovillari, the author’s childhood hometown. In the play, memory emerges prominently both as a theme – intertwining private and familial recollections with collective, social, and historical time – and as a method of dramaturgical construction. Employing a contemporary ars memoriae, evocative of the principles detailed in ancient mnemotechnical treatises, La Ruina transforms a small village street into a mnemonic and scenic space where lost local figures, customs, and both intimate and communal stories are brought back to life.