Susanne Kennedy

Reanimating the Theatre

Inge Arteel, Silke Felber, Cornelis van der Haven, Inge Arteel, Silke Felber, Cornelis van der Haven

• Verlag: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
• Jahr: 2023
• ISBN drucken:
  9783823385509
• eBook-ISBN:
  9783823304777
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Literature
• Thema: Literary Criticism for Comparative Literature

For several years, Susanne Kennedy has been prominently present as a director on the German speaking stage. Her radical adaptations of canonical plays and popular films and her own creations of profoundly other counter-worlds are met with critical acclaim but also with bewilderment. To date, theatre studies has only scarcely engaged with the challenges her work poses. The present volume offers the first edited collection on Kennedy's work. The contributions highlight both older and more recent productions and address the question how Kennedy's aesthetics reanimate the theatre. They include detailed performance analyses to provide theatre scholars and critics with insights in the historical, dramaturgical, intermedial and technological aspects of Kennedy's aesthetics. An artist talk with Susanne Kennedy concludes the volume.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Susanne Kennedy’s Theatre
• Transactional Love
• The Enforced, Rejected and Subjecting Gaze
• Puppets in a Panic Room?
• Susanne Kennedy’s Cinematic Melodrama on Stage
• Theatre as an Exercise in Dying
• Susanne Kennedy’s Women in Trouble
• Re-interpreting the Mask: Masking and Masquerades as an Artistic Research Practice
• Drei Schwestern: How to Build Moscow’s Point Of View
• The Loop as Transmedial Principle in Susanne Kennedy’s Drei Schwestern
• Becoming Something Else – Susanne Kennedy’s Theatre of Attunement
• Artist Talk with Susanne Kennedy
• Notes on contributors
• Footnotes