Theatre actor and director Memé
Perlini, one of the protagonists of the Italian avant-garde
stage in the 70s and 80s, died Wednesday, an apparent suicide.
Perlini, 69, the former director of the Beat72 theatre who
worked with iconoclastic greats like Carmelo Bene, had been
suffering from serious depression for years. He apparently threw
himself out of his window on the fifth floor of an apartment
block near Piazza Vittorio. A friend and student of Lindsay
Kemp, Perlini also worked as a cinema writer, actor and
director.
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