ABSTRACT
The Nineties witnessed the triumph of Neo-liberalism and the weakening of the ideological divergence that had set east against west, left against right, and socialism against capitalism. Certain ideas began to fade away, such as dialectics, the struggle for a better society, the utopia of possible revolutions, and art as means for envisioning a reality different from the dominant one, with the individual as a creative force. In Theater, success came to artists who practiced a weak form of flat, sentimental social protest that pacified spirits, using models derived from television, such as in the spectacles of Pippo Delbono and Emma Dante. A new phenomenon emerged of self-managed social centers, developed by groups of theater artists who occupied abandoned urban buildings and used them for the production and presentation of spectacles. The Nineties also saw the advent of digital technology, the expansion of computer networks and the personal computer - in larger sense, the coming to light of "virtual worlds".
