Postdramatic Theatre and the Political
International Perspectives on Contemporary Performance
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Postdramatic Theatre and the Political
International Perspectives on Contemporary Performance
About this book
Is postdramatic theatre political and if so how? How does it relate to Brecht's ideas of political theatre, for example? How can we account for the relationship between aesthetics and politics in new forms of theatre, playwriting, and performance? The chapters in this book discuss crucial aspects of the issues raised by the postdramatic turn in theatre in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century: the status of the audience and modes of spectatorship in postdramatic theatre; the political claims of postdramatic theatre; postdramatic theatre's ongoing relationship with the dramatic tradition; its dialectical qualities, or its eschewing of the dialectic; questions of representation and the real in theatre; the role of bodies, perception, appearance and theatricality in postdramatic theatre; as well as subjectivity and agency in postdramatic theatre, dance and performance. Offering analyses of a wide range of international performance examples, scholars in this volume engage with Hans-Thies Lehmann's theoretical positions both affirmatively and critically, relating them to other approaches by thinkers ranging from early theorists such as Brecht, Adorno and Benjamin, to contemporary thinkers such as Fischer-Lichte, Rancière and others
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Introduction: Postdramatic Theatre and the Political
- 1 Towards a Paradoxically Parallaxical Postdramatic Politics?
- 2 Performing Dialectics in an Age of Uncertainty, or: Why Post-Brechtian ≠ Postdramatic
- 3 Political Fictions and Fictionalisations: History as Material for Postdramatic Theatre
- 4 A Future for Tragedy? Remarks on the Political and the Postdramatic
- 5 Spectres of Subjectivity: On the Fetish of Identity in (Post-)Postdramatic Choreography
- 6 Christoph Schlingensief’s Rocky Dutschke, ’68: A Reassessment of Activism in Theatre
- 7 Postdramatic Reality Theatre and Productive Insecurity: Destabilising Encounters with the Unfamiliar in Theatre from Sydney and Berlin
- 8 Postdramatic Labour in The Builders Association’s Alladeen
- 9 Acting, Disabled: Back to Back Theatre and the Politics of Appearance
- 10 Parasitic Politics: Elfriede Jelinek’s ‘Secondary Dramas’ Abraumhalde and FaustIn and out
- 11 Phenomenology and the Postdramatic: A Case Study of Three Plays by Ewald Palmetshofer
- 12 Performing the Collective. Heiner Müller’s ‘Alone with These Bodies’ (‘Allein mit diesen Leibern’) as a Piece for Postdramatic Theatre
- Notes
- Notes on Contributors
- Index