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Hickie, Rebecca J. "Scenography as process in British devised and postdramatic theatre." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2009. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/12660.
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The term scenography is an increasingly popular one within the worldwide theatre making community, becoming the term of choice to refer to the visual, spatial and aural aspects of theatre production. In her book What is Scenography? (2002) Pamela Howard suggests that we should consider the term scenography as referring not only to those aspects of the theatre product, but also to the collaborative process through which the product is created. In the context of her study, Howard refers to scenography as process within her own work, grounded in the production of literary texts. But what are the implications of scenography as process within non text-based and postdramatic theatre? This thesis will consider the place and process of design within devised and postdramatic theatre, and how this fits with Howard's conception of scenography as process. The change and development in all aspects of the theatre making process that occurred through the twentieth century, with the growth of devising methodologies and collective-based companies, necessitated the emergence of a different type of theatre designer. Howard cites an emphasis in collaboration and the scenographer's presence in the rehearsal room as distinguishing factors between a scenographic and more orthodox design process, and as such this need for a collaborative design methodology can be seen as having arisen from the development of collective and devising working processes. Considering the historical importance of figures such as Appia, Craig, Meyerhold, Brecht and Svoboda in the revolution and development of stage design and scenography through the twentieth century, this thesis documents the scenic practice of Complicite, Improbable, Forced Entertainment, Fevered Sleep and two recent productions by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre, considering scenography as an integral part of the process of writing the performance text. Out of the work of these practitioners various models of scenographic practice are drawn, offering a variety of methodologies that can be used individually or in combination as a starting point for developing scenography in a devised or postdramatic context.
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Fenton, David Raymond. "Unstable acts : a practitioner's case study of the poetics of postdramatic theatre and intermediality." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2007. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16527/1/David_Fenton_Thesis.pdf.
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This practice-led research enquiry examines the form and experience of postdramatic theatre and intermediality. Through three practice-led enquiry cycles, the performance, Unstable Acts, was created. The study was designed to introduce the practitioner to a new process of practice within a postmodern aesthetic and to investigate the theory and practice of intermedial performance. Accordingly, Unstable Acts generated moments of praxis concerning postdramatic theatre and intermediality. By analysing this praxis an increasingly complex understanding of de-representational performance, the liminal experience, percipience, reflection and intermediality in postdramatic theatre was developed.
In responding to Unstable Acts, the study proposes a working model for the poetics of postdramatic theatre which places intermediality as a formal recurrence of the postdramatic form. The model also proposes that the postdramaturgical strategy of de-representational performance is a central stylistic quality of postdramatic form, and that the liminal experience is central to the postdramatic theatre experience. Connecting de-representation and liminality through queer theory, the model contends that reflection is an important aspect of both the form and experience of postdramatic theatre.
In so doing, the study provides a clearer understanding for theorists and practitioners of the poetics of postdramatic theatre and the position of intermediality in postdramatic practice.
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Fenton, David Raymond. "Unstable acts : a practitioner's case study of the poetics of postdramatic theatre and intermediality." Queensland University of Technology, 2007. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16527/.
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This practice-led research enquiry examines the form and experience of postdramatic theatre and intermediality. Through three practice-led enquiry cycles, the performance, Unstable Acts, was created. The study was designed to introduce the practitioner to a new process of practice within a postmodern aesthetic and to investigate the theory and practice of intermedial performance. Accordingly, Unstable Acts generated moments of praxis concerning postdramatic theatre and intermediality. By analysing this praxis an increasingly complex understanding of de-representational performance, the liminal experience, percipience, reflection and intermediality in postdramatic theatre was developed. In responding to Unstable Acts, the study proposes a working model for the poetics of postdramatic theatre which places intermediality as a formal recurrence of the postdramatic form. The model also proposes that the postdramaturgical strategy of de-representational performance is a central stylistic quality of postdramatic form, and that the liminal experience is central to the postdramatic theatre experience. Connecting de-representation and liminality through queer theory, the model contends that reflection is an important aspect of both the form and experience of postdramatic theatre. In so doing, the study provides a clearer understanding for theorists and practitioners of the poetics of postdramatic theatre and the position of intermediality in postdramatic practice.
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Ceraolo, Francesco. "The aesthetics of the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk in the 20th and 21st Century : from Appia to postdramatic theatre." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610955.
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Shamsuddeen, Bello. "The postdramatic theatre of Athol Fugard and Maishe Maponya: commitment, collaboration, and experiment in apartheid South Africa." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1591.
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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English at the University of Zululand, 2017Athol Fugard and Maishe Maponya both used the postdramatic theatre, which was largely anti-elitist, anti-text, experimental and collaborative, at certain point in their literary careers. They rebelled against established conventions, and, in their own ways, produced a type of theatre that suited their context and literary and ideological leanings. The rebellion and transformation of the theatre was not peculiar to them, but was a universal phenomenon at the time this thesis examines. As such, it manifested in works of artists who appropriated the new dramatic techniques to represent their different contexts and emerging socio-political trends. The thesis examines the collaborative process of Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona in view of the critical debates about identity, politics, role play, and Fugard’s claim to primary authorship of Sizwe Bansi is Dead and The Island. Collaboration is not a fixed term or practice. It depends largely on the play, play-making situation, and intention. It also changes even with the same artists involved in the collaboration. The devising process that led to The Coat, for example, differed from that of Sizwe Bansi is Dead and The Island. Even the collaborative process of Sizwe Bansi is Dead and The Island differs despite that the plays were produced around the same time. Fugard’s collaboration with the Circle Players (late 1950s) also differs from his collaboration with the Serpent Players (1960s) and that with Kani and Ntshona (early 1970s). Collaboration meant different things at different times for Fugard. He seems to have ridden on the coattails of black actors, although he successfully toured the plays around the world. Maponya’s idea of collaboration differs from that of Fugard. Although Maponya did not officially collaborate with actors, he used them as conduits into their lived experiences (The Hungry Earth) and professions (Umongikazi). This play-making technique is in many ways collaborative and similar to Fugard’s collaborative pattern during his work with the Circle Players in the production of No-Good Friday and Nongogo. Maponya lifts up the black artist but suffers the consequences. Fugard and Maponya used the actors in different capacities and utilised fairly similar, but different, collaborative techniques. They both utilised experimental, improvisational, and workshop-based methods differently, and at different times. The white South African playwright Fugard prepared the ground for radical experimentation with form and content in South Africa. Fugard enjoys a place of honour in the South African (and more generally African) canon. His reputation as a great writer, creative collaborator and director, and as a person who was able to create a unique theatre that blended African and Western forms of performance, has been acknowledged globally. His work with black actors, notably John Kani and Winston Ntshona, enabled this feat. He adopted a multidimensional approach to art, retained his literary leaning and identity, collaborated, and assisted in training and directing of black actors, and so contributed in his own equally potent way to the struggle against apartheid through the theatre. He promoted a belief in “the personal is political” through plays to be examined herein. The Coat (1966), Sizwe Bansi is Dead (1972) and The Island (1973) are selected because they are Fugard’s most political plays and because they were devised in collaboration with actors. The Hungry Earth (1979), Gangsters (1984) and Jika (1986) also pass the litmus test because they are Maponya’s most radical indictment of the apartheid regime and because they were also devised through experiments with actors who provided material and acting. In contrast to most writing on Fugard and Maponya, which are anchored to either a literary interpretation of the plays or performance discourse, this study offers a literary and performative analysis of the selected plays, demonstrating that this must be done together. This thesis also offers a comparative analysis of the selected plays. Maponya is a black artist and bitter playwright of the Struggle. His works are multifaceted, open to differing interpretations and are fairly universal and timeless because of their concern with general themes such as capitalism, subversion and containment; so also for their relation with more universal works, and their demonstration that the local and immediate experiences can have global legs. His concern with Black Consciousness and resistance however confined his status to a black ideologue. Maponya’s dramas nonetheless resist the accustomed standard of categorisation as plays by a black South African dramatist. The sharp cataloguing between white and black and major and minor playwright begins to fall apart when comparing Fugard and Maponya in terms of theatre practice and experiences. The reception of Maponya’s plays – both at home and abroad – reveals that he was an equally theatrically-aware and successful artist of the struggle, although he cannot be evenly matched with Fugard in terms of literary craft and outreach. This reductionism has also affected Fugard, who many regard as a liberal white writer. His colour was a handicap and a saving grace since it allowed him to work with black actors despite the laws banning interracial relations. The discourse of commitment in the plays to be examined – as well as in the dramatists’ practice of theatre – is centred on the relation between intention, context and text. The study examines the artists’ contribution(s) to the struggle; and how effective that contribution is, considering the complicated context and events they wrote about. To my knowledge, no other work, specifically, examines these two quite different playwrights, particularly in the context of their writing methods, their political reception in South Africa and abroad, and their ideas about play-making. New Historicism is chosen for the analysis of the selected plays because they are produced in history and for the theory’s concern with historical situation; because it is more of a practice than a set of doctrines or theory (Greenblatt 1990); and because it is concerned with intention and choice of genre (Bressler 2000). The theory, or rather practice, is also chosen because it promotes the study of both major and minor authors, thereby blurring the distinction between them (Gallagher and Greenblatt 2000); and because it accords more place for collaborative works (Greenblatt 1989) – which is one of the main concerns of this study.
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Wood, Michael Alistair Peter. "Making the audience work : textual politics and performance strategies for a 'democratic' theatre in the works of Heiner Müller." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11702.
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In 1985, the East German playwright Heiner Müller (1929-95) spoke of the importance of a ‘democratic’ theatre: for Müller, the theatre was to be a space in which audience members are free to produce their own interpretations of the material presented on stage. In turn, the audience is encouraged to question the composition of its material reality but is not presented with a solution. Müller explicitly related this practice to his own production of his three texts Der Lohndrücker (1956-57), Der Horatier (1968), and Wolokolamsker Chaussee IV: Kentauren (1986) together at the Deutsches Theater in 1988-91. As this thesis demonstrates, Müller foregrounds instigating audience participation and the means of creating ‘democratic’ theatre from the very beginning of his career. In studying the composition of Müller’s texts, the historical contexts in which they were written, and their premières we gain new perspectives on the ways in which the possibility for political theatre is anchored in Müller’s texts and just how this political theatre aims to engage its contemporary, implied audiences; indeed, this thesis argues that the politics of Müller’s theatre can be best defined as ‘democratic’. In the introduction, I establish how Müller understands the term ‘democratic’ and how his understanding differs from interpretations of democracy contemporary to him; in doing so, I borrow critical vocabulary from the contemporary French philosopher Jacques Rancière. The introduction also elaborates a methodology for studying both implied and real audiences. While each of the prevalent semiological, phenomenological, or materialist theories of audience response has its strengths, in order to pay sufficient attention to the multiple influences upon and aspects of audience interaction, we must take a more holistic approach to audience research. I therefore articulate a new materialist phenomenological approach to audiences, drawing on Martin Heidegger’s phenomenology. In the following chapters, I study Der Lohndrücker, Der Horatier, and Kentauren in their historical contexts and consider how they were both composed with their contemporary audiences in mind and staged in their premières. This approach sheds new light on each text in question: not only do all three texts demonstrate a concern for a lack of democracy in material reality, but each also contains strategies for engaging audience involvement in a piece of ‘democratic’ theatre. My final chapter analyses Müller’s own staging techniques in Der Lohndrücker in 1988, arguing that they enhance the production’s democratic political potential and contribute to our understanding of Müller’s political theatre. While the productions discussed in Chapters 2 and 3 have largely been overlooked by theatre scholarship to date, they provide important insights into the politics of Müller’s texts and the possible limits of writing political theatre texts. This thesis draws on a wide range of both published and unpublished materials, including rehearsal notes, stage manuscripts, audience letters, newspaper reviews, theatre programmes, records of reactions to Müller’s works within the GDR’s statecraft, and Müller’s own notes for writing his texts. Through this wealth of material we not only gain an insight into the ways in which Müller’s texts were written for his audiences but we also recognise the parameters for his audiences’ responses. In offering a fresh perspective on Müller’s works, this thesis demonstrates both a compelling model for audience research and that a synthesis of textual/performance analysis, historical contextualisation, and audience research provides us with a very adept tool for analysing the making of political theatre and the politics of making theatre.
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Cronin, Bernadette Joan. "Post-memories of the Holocaust in contemporary Austrian theatre : projects against forgetting." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/104522.
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This dissertation examines contemporary responses by Austrian theatre makers from the free theatre sector, that is, those working outside of the state theatre establishment, to the outcome of what came to be known as ‘the big lie’ on which Austrian national identity was built following liberation from German rule by the Allied forces in 1945. The ensuing problem for the post-war generations of having to claim a past that was buried under the carefully constructed official version of history but mediated through the silence of their parents and grandparents – shaping their (inner) lives – and possibilities for representing such experience through the medium of theatre are core issues explored in this study. The main focus of the dissertation is analysis of a selection of three pieces of theatre produced by two free theatre companies in Austria, Auf der Suche nach Jakob / Searching for Jacob / Szukajac Jakuba, and Pola, both by the Projekttheater Studio based in Vienna, and Speaking Stones: images, voices, fragments… from that which comes after by Theater Asou in Graz, Styria. Apart from contextualization of the central thematic concerns of the selected pieces of theatre within the historical events of 20th century Austria, and discussion of the theoretical framework within which the pieces are analysed, this study also offers a consideration of the phenomenon of the free theatre sector in contemporary Austria as a complement and an alternative to the state theatre sector, its roots and development since the post WWII period through to the early 21st century. Interviews with theatre artists, arts administrators and a Holocaust eye witness are also drawn upon to investigate how free theatre can provide a medium though which memory-work, the subtleties of damage and the inexpressible, and the difficult task of claiming the past can be explored.
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Nelander, Sissela. "”Jag vill ha slitningar där sprickor växer, där avstånd mellan tid och tid / blir kött” : Att teckna i negationer: En studie av negationens kritiska potential i Christina Ouzounidis postdramatiska teatertext Spår av Antigone (2014)." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Litteraturvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-43697.
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With basis in critical theory, as defined by Theodor W. Adorno, as well as Hans-Thies Lehmann’s theory on postdramatic theatre this study investigates the ethic and aesthetic processes of negation in Christina Ouzounidis theatre texts. Analyzing the ways in which the postdramatic form serves as a negation of classical dramaturgy, as well as reading the negative statements as representants of the very challenge of portraying utopia, the studie examines three main themes: the notion of postdramatic theatre text, the postdramatic adaption of classical texts and the political postdramatic.
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Lim, Bao Tung Michelle. "Performing morality : a framework for assessing the moral significance of selected works of postdramatic performance." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/76539/1/Bao%20Tung%20Michelle_Lim_Thesis.pdf.
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This study examines the relationship between aesthetic and moral dimensions of postdramatic performance (PdP) with specific reference to two case studies: The Power of Theatrical Madness (1984) by Jan Fabre; and Inferno (2008) by Romeo Castellucci. These two cases were selected based on Lehmann's (1999/2006) "Postdramatic Theatre" theoretical framework by identifying various aspects of PdP: text, space, time, body and media. There are three primary objectives in this research project: (1) to examine if the selected works of PdP have moral functions; (2) identify these moral functions; and (3) establish a suitable framework to examine and assess the moral significance of the selected works.
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Plummer, Kris Bronwyn. "Contemporary dramaturgy in theatre for young people : the conceptual shape of displacement and installation." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/32454/1/Kris_Plummer_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis investigates Theatre for Young People (TYP) as a site of performance innovation. The inquiry is focused on contemporary dramaturgy and its fieldwork aims to identify new dramaturgical principles operating in the creation and presentation of TYP. The research then seeks to assess how these new principles contribute to Postdramatic Theatre theory.
This research inquiry springs from an imperative based in practice: Young people under 25 years have a literacy based on online hypertextual experiences which take the reader outside the frames of a dramatic narrative and beyond principles such as linearity, dramatic unity, teleology and resolution. As a dramaturg and educator I wanted to understand the new ways that young people engage in cultural products, to identify and utilize the new principles of dramaturgy that are now in evidence.
My research examines how two playwright/directors approach their work and the new principles that can be identified in their dramaturgy. The fieldwork is scoped into two case studies: the first on TJ Eckleberg working in Australian Theatre for Young People and the second on Kristo Šagor working in German Children’s and Young People’s Theatre (KJT).
These case studies address both types of production dramaturgy - the dramaturgy emergent through process in devised performance making, and that emergent in a performance based on a written playscript. On Case Study One the researcher, as participant observer, worked as production dramaturg on a large scale, site specific performance, observing the dramaturgy in process of its director and chief devisor. On Case Study Two the researcher, as observer and analyst, undertook a performance analysis of three playscripts and productions by a contemporary German playwright and director.
Utilizing participant observation, reflective practice and grounded analysis the case studies have identified two new principles animating the dramaturgy of these TYP practitioners, namely ‘displacement’ and ‘installation.’ Taking practice into theory, the thesis concludes by demonstrating how displacement and installation contribute to Postdramatic Theatre’s “arsenal of expressive gestures which serve as theatre’s response to changed social communication under the conditions of generalized communication technologies” (Lehmann, H.-T., 2006, p.23).
This research makes an original contribution to knowledge by evidencing that the principles of Postdramatic Theory lie within the practice of contemporary Theatre for Young People. It also contributes valuable research to a specialized, often overlooked terrain, namely Dramaturgy in Theatre for Young People, presented here with a contemporary, international and intercultural perspective.
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Sibthorpe, Nathan L. "The effect of embodied metafiction in contemporary performance." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/121498/1/Nathan_Sibthorpe_Thesis.pdf.
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This study seeks to define a particular sub-genre of contemporary performance where self-awareness is a significant factor in the audience's experience. Exemplified in the development of a new performance work ('Spectate'), the term 'embodied metafiction' is proposed as a way of understanding the effect of highlighting an audience's presence and participation in the theatrical experience. Principles of 'embodied metafiction' are observed through 'Spectate' to demonstrate how an audience can be stimulated to experience a more vivid sense of the immediate present when their bodies and minds are positioned as part of a complex web of meaning.
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Stewart, Lucy Claire. ""Theatre of the dancing language" : new possibilities in contemporary Australian playwrighting." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/28477/1/Lucy_Stewart_Thesis.pdf.
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This study focuses on trends in contemporary Australian playwrighting, discussing recent investigations into the playwrighting process. The study analyses the current state of this country’s playwrighting industry, with a particular focus on programming trends since 1998. It seeks to explore the implications of this current theatrical climate, in particular the types of work most commonly being favoured for production. It argues that Australian plays are under-represented (compared to non-Australian plays) on ‘mainstream’ stages and that audiences might benefit from more challenging modes of writing than the popular three-act realist play models. The thesis argues that ‘New Lyricism’ might fill this position of offering an innovative Australian playwrighting mode. New Lyricism is characterised by a set of common aesthetics, including a non-linear narrative structure, a poetic use of language and magic realism. Several Australian playwrights who have adopted this mode of writing are identified and their works examined. The author’s play Floodlands is presented as a case study and the author’s creative process is examined in light of the published critical discussions about experimental playwriting work.
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Stewart, Lucy Claire. ""Theatre of the dancing language" : new possibilities in contemporary Australian playwrighting." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/28477/.
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This study focuses on trends in contemporary Australian playwrighting, discussing recent investigations into the playwrighting process. The study analyses the current state of this country’s playwrighting industry, with a particular focus on programming trends since 1998. It seeks to explore the implications of this current theatrical climate, in particular the types of work most commonly being favoured for production. It argues that Australian plays are under-represented (compared to non-Australian plays) on ‘mainstream’ stages and that audiences might benefit from more challenging modes of writing than the popular three-act realist play models. The thesis argues that ‘New Lyricism’ might fill this position of offering an innovative Australian playwrighting mode. New Lyricism is characterised by a set of common aesthetics, including a non-linear narrative structure, a poetic use of language and magic realism. Several Australian playwrights who have adopted this mode of writing are identified and their works examined. The author’s play Floodlands is presented as a case study and the author’s creative process is examined in light of the published critical discussions about experimental playwriting work.
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Knapton, Benjamin. "Activating simultaneity in performance : exploring Robert Lepage's working principles in the making of Gaijin." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16583/1/Benjamin_Knapton_Thesis.pdf.
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In this research I have explored the performance making process of world renowned director Robert Lepage. This exploration informed my own process, creating an original performance called GAIJIN, where my roles included producer / director / designer and co-writer. The practice-led research strategy employed in this research has allowed me to navigate the sometimes slippery slope of connecting various performance discourses with the pragmatics of the performance making process. The reason for this research is my strong interest in the director’s role and my affinity with the practice of Robert Lepage. My observation of the performance making process of Robert Lepage prompted the creation of a conceptual framework informed by Hans-Thies Lehmann’s work Postdramatic Theatre. These theoretical concerns were then further investigated in the creation of my own show. This research process has uncovered a performance making process that foregrounds the working principles of simultaneity and synaesthesia, which together offer a changed conception of the performance text in live performance. Simultaneity is a space of chaotic interaction where many resources are used to build a perpetually evolving performance text. Synaesthesia is the type of navigation required – an engagement consisting of interrelated sense-impressions that uniquely connect the performance makers with the abundance of content and stimulus; they search for poetic connections and harmonious movement between the resources. This engagement relies on intuitive playmaking where the artists must exhibit restraint and reserve to privilege the interaction of resources and observe the emerging performance. This process has the potential to create a performance that is built by referential layers of theatrical signifiers and impressions.
This research offers an insight into the practices of Robert Lepage as well as a lens through which to view other unique devising processes. It also offers a performance making language that is worthy of consideration by all performance makers, from directors to performers. The significance of this process is its inherent qualities of innovation produced by all manner of art forms and resources interacting in a unique performance making space.
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Knapton, Benjamin. "Activating simultaneity in performance : exploring Robert Lepage's working principles in the making of Gaijin." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16583/.
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In this research I have explored the performance making process of world renowned director Robert Lepage. This exploration informed my own process, creating an original performance called GAIJIN, where my roles included producer / director / designer and co-writer. The practice-led research strategy employed in this research has allowed me to navigate the sometimes slippery slope of connecting various performance discourses with the pragmatics of the performance making process. The reason for this research is my strong interest in the director’s role and my affinity with the practice of Robert Lepage. My observation of the performance making process of Robert Lepage prompted the creation of a conceptual framework informed by Hans-Thies Lehmann’s work Postdramatic Theatre. These theoretical concerns were then further investigated in the creation of my own show. This research process has uncovered a performance making process that foregrounds the working principles of simultaneity and synaesthesia, which together offer a changed conception of the performance text in live performance. Simultaneity is a space of chaotic interaction where many resources are used to build a perpetually evolving performance text. Synaesthesia is the type of navigation required – an engagement consisting of interrelated sense-impressions that uniquely connect the performance makers with the abundance of content and stimulus; they search for poetic connections and harmonious movement between the resources. This engagement relies on intuitive playmaking where the artists must exhibit restraint and reserve to privilege the interaction of resources and observe the emerging performance. This process has the potential to create a performance that is built by referential layers of theatrical signifiers and impressions.
This research offers an insight into the practices of Robert Lepage as well as a lens through which to view other unique devising processes. It also offers a performance making language that is worthy of consideration by all performance makers, from directors to performers. The significance of this process is its inherent qualities of innovation produced by all manner of art forms and resources interacting in a unique performance making space.
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Haxton, Robert Peter. "Refusal and rupture as a postdramatic revolt : an analysis of selected South African contemporary devised performances with particular focus on works by First Physical Theatre Company and the Rhodes University Drama Department." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015671.
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This mini-thesis investigates the concepts of refusal and rupture as a postdramatic revolt and how these terms can be applied and read within the context of analysing contemporary devised performance in South Africa. The argument focuses on the efficacy of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s postdramatic terminology and the potential of its use in an appreciation of contemporary performance analysis. I investigate the potential in South African contemporary devised performance practice to challenge prevailing modes of traditional dramatic expectation in order to restore the experience of discovery and questioning in the spectator. This research is approached through a qualitative process which entails a reading and application of selected critical texts to the analysis with an application of Lehmann’s terminology. This reading/application is engaged in a dialogue with the interpretative and experiential aspects of selected South African devised performances with particular focus on four cross-disciplinary works selected for analysis. Chapter One functions as an introduction to the concept of postdramatic theatre and the application of the terms refusal and rupture as deconstructive keywords in the process of a devised performance. Chapter Two is an analysis of several South African contemporary performances with particular focus on Body of Evidence (2009) by Siwela Sonke Dance Company, Wreckage (2011) a collaboration by Ubom! Eastern Cape Drama Company and First Physical Theatre Company, Discharge (2012) by First Physical Theatre Company, and Drifting (2013) by The Rhodes University Drama Department. This mini-thesis concludes with the idea that with an understanding of refusal and rupture in a postdramatic revolt, contemporary devised performance achieves an awakening in its spectators by deconstructing the expectation of understanding and the need for resolve; the assumption and need for traditional dramatic structures and rules are challenged. Instead, it awakes an experience of discovery and questioning.
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Dey, Misri. "Devising solo performance : a practitioner's enquiry." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3289.
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This research explores the validity and value of ‘solo devising’ as a means for specifying a category of theatre-making that has been little discussed, compared to group devising, in existing literature on devising and postdramatic theatre. Primary source material was obtained through carrying out extended interviews with five experienced British theatre practitioners who have made work that could be described as solo devised performance: Tim Etchells, Bobby Baker, Mike Pearson, Nigel Charnock and Wendy Houstoun. In analysing these interviews, referred to in detail but not reproduced in full, the enquiry draws on a range of writings, including Oddey, Heddon, Harvie, Alexander and George, on devising and making performance and in particular on Melrose’s concept of practitioner-centred expert knowledge, Lehmann’s notion of the postdramatic and Sennett’s specification of expertise in craftsmanship. Chapter One considers solo practice in relation to the idea of a solo devising economy, the interviewees’ professional work and other experimental solo practices within theatre, performance, dance and art. Chapter Two explores how the interviewees create multiple performance personae, doing and undoing notions of individuality and autobiography through strategies of working ‘about’, ‘from’ and ‘beyond’ the self. Chapter Three explores solo devising processes, involving research, generation of material, composition, performance and ‘orchestration’. Chapter Four scrutinises different kinds of collaboration, including ‘audiencing’, as both enabling and productively confounding activities occurring within solo devising. Chapter five specifies some findings about solo devising: that it both involves expert, crafted, individual working, requiring orchestration of a high number of activities and skills, and, simultaneously, practices of negotiated authorship with other artists and audiences, enabling a potentially political reading of its distinctly ambiguous working. An additional finding is that close attention to what expert practitioners say about their work can yield rich information about a specific practice.
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Vennemann, Aline. "Architectures et architectures de la mémoire : le théâtre d’Elfriede Jelinek et de Peter Wagner (1991-2011)." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013REN20039/document.
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Le théâtre d'Elfriede Jelinek et de Peter Wagner s'inscrit dans la (re/con)quête d'une identité mise à mal par les traumatismes successifs de l'histoire austro-allemande ainsi que par les relations contradictoires qu'entretient le peuple germanique avec son passé fasciste. A la montée des commémorations officielles depuis le début des années 1990, qui va de pair avec la disparition des derniers témoins de la Shoah, les textes, tout comme les mises en scènes et performances vocales qu'ils suscitent, opposent un théâtre des lieux et des milieux de la mémoire. L'analyse des stratégiestextuelles et scéniques, sous l'angle des formes, structures et des enjeux de la mémoire et du souvenir, met au jour une esthétique théâtrale particulière de ce que l'on peut appeler un art du « remembrement»Elfriede Jelinek and Peter Wagner's plays are part of the quest for—or conquest of—an identity shaken by the traumas of Austro-German history, and by the contradictory relationship between the Germanic peoples and their fascist past. The 1990s saw the deaths of many of the last Holocaust witnesses, and an increase in official commemorations to which the texts, as well as their staging and their vocal performance, respond through sites of memory and real environments of memory. The analysis of textual and scenic strategies, in particular the forms, structures and implications of memory, shedslight on a special theatrical aesthetic belonging to what may be called an art of « rememberment»
Das Theater von Elfriede Jelinek und Peter Wagner trägt zur Wieder(an)erkennung und Wiederfindung einer Identitätbei, die durch die sukzessiven Traumata der österreichischdeutschen Geschichte sowie durch das widersprüchlicheVerhältnis Deutschstämmiger zu ihrer faschistischen Vergangenheit beeinträchtigt wurde. Den offiziellen Gedenkfeiernseit Anfang der 1990er Jahre, die mit dem allmählichen Verschwinden der letzten Holocaust-Zeitzeugen einhergehen,setzen die von ihnen hervorgerufenen Texte, Inszenierungen und stimmlichen Performances ein Theater derGedächtnisorte und -räume entgegen. Die Analyse der textuellen und szenischen Strategien unter dem Blickwinkelder Formen, Strukturen und Funktionen von Erinnerung und Gedächtnis bringteine spezielle Theaterästhetikdessen an den Tag, was alseine Kunst «erinnernderWieder-Holung» bezeichnetwerden kann
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De, Giorgi Margherita. "Figurations de la présence : esthétiques corporelles, pratiques du geste et écologies des affects sur la scène performative contemporaine." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA080038.
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Dès les années 2000 à aujourd’hui, la présence est au coeur d’un nouvel intérêt théorique.Cette thèse porte sur les recherches en arts vivants et sur des créations récentes à lalumière des enjeux corporels, perceptifs et théoriques résonnant avec ce concept. Lesdéfinitions courantes sont relues et intégrées, dans une approche phénoménologique, parl’analyse du geste dansé, l’épistémologie des pratiques somatiques, l’écologie despratiques (Stengers 2005) et une pensée politique sur les affects (Massumi 1995 ; 2015).Dans la première partie on articule cette approche en fonction d’un regard critique sur lesdiscours théoriques, qu’on met en dialogue avec notre corpus d’oeuvres théâtrales etchorégraphiques. Ici on considère, parmi d’autres pièces, Il principe Amleto du metteur enscène et comédien italien Danio Manfredini. La seconde partie rassemble les analysesd’Ouverture Alcina, monologue de la Compagnie italienne Teatro delle Albe ; de récentescréations chorégraphiques de Virgilio Sieni ; de la pièce Déperdition, crée par MyriamGourfink et d’une reprise de Self Unfinished de Xavier Le Roy dans le cadre du projet« Rétrospective ». Chaque analyse porte sur le travail physique et perceptif de l’interprète,en considérant les processus de création et d’apprentissage, et sur le rapport entre oeuvreet milieu de production et de circulation. Ainsi, l’expérience personnelle de spectatricechercheuseet la centralité du regard se mettent en avant. Il en résulte une perspectiveépistémologique sur les pratiques de la présence, entendues comme pratiquesperformatives, et sur les figurations de la présence, à savoir les effets perceptifs etaffectifs de la performanceSince the early 2000s, the concept of presence is at the core of a renewed interest in theperforming arts field. This dissertation reviews recent theoretical debates and explorestheatrical and choreographic works resonating with the corporeal and aesthetic qualitiesassociated with this notion. Within a phenomenological framework, current definitions arereconsidered through the lenses of dance gesture analysis, expanding on theepistemology of somatic practices, the ecology of practices (Stengers 2005), and politicalfocus on affects (Massumi 1995; 2015). The academic discourses are also examinedthrough a brief outlook of the works, including Il Principe Amleto – a piece by Italian actorand stage director Danio Manfredini. The pieces considered in the second part of thedissertation include Ouverture Alcina, a monologue by the Italian theatre company Teatrodelle Albe; recent projects by Italian choreographer Virgilio Sieni; a dance performanceentitled Déperdition, by French artist Myriam Gourfink; and a recent rerun of Xavier LeRoy’s Self Unfinished within his project « Rétrospective ». Each analysis emphasizes thephysical and perceptive work of the performers and considers the artist’s creative process,as well as the relation between the pieces and their broader staging context. In addition,the personal experience of the scholar/spectator is given prominence, as well as of hergaze. The resulting investigation is thus fundamentally epistemological, focusing at onceon practices of presence – understood as performative in nature –, and on figurations ofpresence, the perceptive and affective implications of performance
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De, Giorgi Margherita. "Figurations de la présence : esthétiques corporelles, pratiques du geste et écologies des affects sur la scène performative contemporaine." Thesis, Paris 8, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA080038.
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Dès les années 2000 à aujourd’hui, la présence est au coeur d’un nouvel intérêt théorique.Cette thèse porte sur les recherches en arts vivants et sur des créations récentes à lalumière des enjeux corporels, perceptifs et théoriques résonnant avec ce concept. Lesdéfinitions courantes sont relues et intégrées, dans une approche phénoménologique, parl’analyse du geste dansé, l’épistémologie des pratiques somatiques, l’écologie despratiques (Stengers 2005) et une pensée politique sur les affects (Massumi 1995 ; 2015).Dans la première partie on articule cette approche en fonction d’un regard critique sur lesdiscours théoriques, qu’on met en dialogue avec notre corpus d’oeuvres théâtrales etchorégraphiques. Ici on considère, parmi d’autres pièces, Il principe Amleto du metteur enscène et comédien italien Danio Manfredini. La seconde partie rassemble les analysesd’Ouverture Alcina, monologue de la Compagnie italienne Teatro delle Albe ; de récentescréations chorégraphiques de Virgilio Sieni ; de la pièce Déperdition, crée par MyriamGourfink et d’une reprise de Self Unfinished de Xavier Le Roy dans le cadre du projet« Rétrospective ». Chaque analyse porte sur le travail physique et perceptif de l’interprète,en considérant les processus de création et d’apprentissage, et sur le rapport entre oeuvreet milieu de production et de circulation. Ainsi, l’expérience personnelle de spectatricechercheuseet la centralité du regard se mettent en avant. Il en résulte une perspectiveépistémologique sur les pratiques de la présence, entendues comme pratiquesperformatives, et sur les figurations de la présence, à savoir les effets perceptifs etaffectifs de la performanceSince the early 2000s, the concept of presence is at the core of a renewed interest in theperforming arts field. This dissertation reviews recent theoretical debates and explorestheatrical and choreographic works resonating with the corporeal and aesthetic qualitiesassociated with this notion. Within a phenomenological framework, current definitions arereconsidered through the lenses of dance gesture analysis, expanding on theepistemology of somatic practices, the ecology of practices (Stengers 2005), and politicalfocus on affects (Massumi 1995; 2015). The academic discourses are also examinedthrough a brief outlook of the works, including Il Principe Amleto – a piece by Italian actorand stage director Danio Manfredini. The pieces considered in the second part of thedissertation include Ouverture Alcina, a monologue by the Italian theatre company Teatrodelle Albe; recent projects by Italian choreographer Virgilio Sieni; a dance performanceentitled Déperdition, by French artist Myriam Gourfink; and a recent rerun of Xavier LeRoy’s Self Unfinished within his project « Rétrospective ». Each analysis emphasizes thephysical and perceptive work of the performers and considers the artist’s creative process,as well as the relation between the pieces and their broader staging context. In addition,the personal experience of the scholar/spectator is given prominence, as well as of hergaze. The resulting investigation is thus fundamentally epistemological, focusing at onceon practices of presence – understood as performative in nature –, and on figurations ofpresence, the perceptive and affective implications of performance
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Oliveira, Felipe Henrique Monteiro. "Corpos diferenciados e o processo de cria??o da performance Kahlo em Mim Eu E(m) Kahlo." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2013. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/12454.
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The dissertation intends to develop an investigation on the artistic existence in human beings with different bodies in society at different historical moments. In this regard and based on this scenario, the study develops a description of the stigmas production and how they are established, spread and interfere with the sociability among human beings regarded as normal and those with different bodies. Regarding the scenic arts, the text describes about the participation of artists with different bodies in the scene, specifically the freak show and postdramatic theater. The text also investigates aspects of the biography and the work of mexican artist Frida Kahlo, which underpin methodological proceedings and produce contribution to the creative process of performance Kahlo em mim Eu e(m) Kahlo , which is to investigate the practice of the scene in this dissertation
A disserta??o tem como objetivo realizar uma averigua??o sobre o fazer art?stico na exist?ncia dos seres humanos com corpos diferenciados na sociedade, em diferentes momentos hist?ricos. Neste sentido e com base neste panorama, o estudo elabora uma descri??o sobre a produ??o de estigmas e a forma como eles se instauram, se propagam e interferem na sociabilidade entre os seres humanos considerados normais e os com corpos diferenciados. No que tange as artes c?nicas, o texto faz uma descri??o acerca da participa??o dos artistas com corpos diferenciados na cena, especificamente do freak show e no teatro p?s-dram?tico. O texto tamb?m investiga aspectos da biografia e da obra da artista pl?stica mexicana Frida Kahlo, os quais fundamentam os procedimentos metodol?gicos e produzem aportes para o processo criativo da performance Kahlo em mim Eu e(m) Kahlo , que consiste na investiga??o da pr?tica da cena na disserta??o
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Jacobs, Daiane Dordete Steckert. "Smoked Love: estudos sobre performance e dramaturgia do ator contemporâneo." Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, 2010. http://tede.udesc.br/handle/handle/1343.
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This present research elaborates a reflection on contemporary actor s dramaturgy and performance, contextualizing the current treatrical production in the assumptions of the postdramatic theatre, - conceptualized by Hans-Thies Lehmann -, and taking as a pratical experiment the play Smoked Love. It examines the key changes from the dramatic theatre to the postdramatic theatre, taking into consideration some changes offered by the postmodernity in the society and arts. In this context, they are still listed some principles of contemporary acting perceived in the investigative process of this study. Smoked Love presents a love triangle irresolute, liquified, and virtualized in their relations, reviewed here principally from studies of the philosopher and sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, and others researchers in the field of communication. The process of creating the experiment Smoked Love, which allowed the reflection dialetic between theory and pratice, in this study, is also recorded and analyzed, focusing on the performance of the soloist and her relations with various media presents in the spectacle
Esta presente pesquisa elabora uma reflexão sobre dramaturgia do ator contemporâneo e performance, contextualizando a produção teatral atual nos pressupostos do teatro pós-dramático, - conceituado por Hans-Thies Lehmann -, e tendo como experimento prático o espetáculo Smoked Love. Analisam-se as alterações essenciais do teatro dramático para o teatro pós-dramático, levando em consideração algumas transformações proporcionadas pela pós-modernidade na sociedade e nas artes. Neste contexto, são indicados ainda alguns princípios de atuação contemporânea percebidos no processo investigativo deste estudo. Smoked Love apresenta um triângulo amoroso irressoluto, liquefeito, virtualizado em suas relações, analisado aqui principalmete a partir dos estudos do filósófo e sociólogo Zygmunt Bauman, além de outros estudiosos da área da comunicação. O processo de criação do experimento cênico Smoked Love, que possibilitou a reflexão dialética entre teoria e prática neste estudo, também é registrado e analisado, tendo como foco a atuação da solista e suas relações com as diversas mídias do espetáculo
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Berger, Cara Gabriele. "Performing Écriture Féminine : strategies for a feminist politics of the postdramatic." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5362/.
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This thesis explores the relationship between postdramatic theatre and écriture féminine using a practice-as-research methodology. Its claim is that Hélène Cixous’s écriture féminine is revitalised as a source for feminist theatre studies through the emergence of postdramatic theatre. The project’s practice-led research identified and extracted principles from Cixous’s prose writing that are especially compelling for theatre and explored these through laboratory practice. The primary sources for doing this were Cixous’s novels Inside (1969) and The Book of Promethea (1983), as well as her writing on Clarice Lispector. The exploration of these materials was a creative and transformative activity that identified equivalent strategies between the two media – prose writing and theatre – while at the same time revealing significant differences and tensions. The practice is documented in the thesis via research logs and video evidence. The written reflection draws attention to the specific potentialities that theatre brings to écriture féminine and discusses how the outcomes of the practice-led research resonate with postdramatic aesthetics. While the research findings accumulated strategically across the series of three performances, and the performances built upon each other iteratively, each of the findings chapters focuses in detail on one aspect of the practice: specifically, semiotics, dramaturgy and feminine epistemology. By pinpointing and discussing nodal points at which postdramatic practices and écriture féminine intersect, this thesis aims to show that postdramatic theatre has the potential to be – and thus frequently is – feminine. Indeed, the overall aim of this thesis is to advance the emerging field of study of feminism in postdramatic theatre by exploring the feminine potential of postdramatic theatre and proposing that Cixous’s écriture féminine offers a way of framing the poetics of postdramatic theatre in relation to feminist politics. The findings have potential utility for theatre-makers seeking a feminist method in the postdramatic as well as scholars of postdramatic theatre and feminism.
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Bouko, Catherine. "La réception spectatorielle et les formes postdramatiques du spectacle vivant." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210342.
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Selon différents théoriciens (Guénoun, Lehmann, Ryngaert, etc.), la fin du vingtième siècle se caractérise par l'émergence de nouvelles formes théâtrales, marquées par la contamination des pratiques spectaculaires.Hans-Thies Lehmann reprend la notion de "théâtre postdramatique" proposée par Richard Schechner pour qualifier ces formes métissées de spectacle vivant La thèse défendue est la suivante :le théâtre postdramatique trouve sa spécificité non seulement dans la transgression des codes dramatiques mais surtout dans des processus de réception spécifiques qu'il importe de définir, à l'aide d'outils notamment sémiotiques. Ces processus sont situés et construits par rapport à différents modèles interdisciplinaires.
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Hennaut, Benoît. "Théâtre et récit, l'impossible rupture: la place du spectacle dans le spectacle postdramatique entre 1975 et 2004, selon Romeo Castellucci, Jan Lauwers, Elizabeth LeCompte." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209559.
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Dans sa période particulièrement dense de production au cours des années 1980 et 1990, le spectacle dit « postdramatique » affirme régulièrement sa volonté de rompre avec toute forme de narration qu’illustrent des formes dramatiques plus conventionnelles. C’est même devenu un topos critique de dire que le théâtre postdramatique échappe à la narration ou la rend problématique, tant pour qualifier sa production (en termes de projet dramaturgique) que sa réception par le public.Cependant, la force du déni installe le doute. Je me suis inquiété de l’insistance avec laquelle une certaine manière de concevoir le théâtre écartait ou s’opposait à un élément aussi structurant et persistant que le récit (en termes culturels, littéraires, dramatiques, …). Après avoir posé les termes de sa définition, j’ai voulu vérifier si le spectacle postdramatique ne contenait vraiment plus aucune forme de récit, quand bien même cette fonction lui serait implicitement ou explicitement contestée. Ma décision de mener l’enquête a été essentiellement provoquée par deux phénomènes :une intuition narrative qui se manifeste quand même vis-à-vis de ces spectacles (sur quoi est-elle fondée ?), et l’existence de textes qui en font le compte-rendu sur un mode narratif à la réception. Par ailleurs, j’ai senti le besoin d’analyser de manière un peu plus fine cette poétique non-narrative déclarée par les auteurs.
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During a particularly dense production period running in the 1980s and 1990s, the so-called “postdramatic” theatre regularly attempted to break from all forms of narration utilized in more conventional dramatic forms. It became a recurring critical leitmotif to say that postdramatic theatre either eschewed narration entirely or rendered it problematic, whether as a qualifier to its production (in dramaturgical terms) or to explain audience reaction.
However, repeated denial definitely inspires doubt. I was concerned that one particular way of thinking about theatre seemed to refuse or rule out such a consistent and structural element as the narrative (culturally, dramatically, as well as in literary terms). I therefore wished to be sure that certain postdramatic pieces really had not retained any form of storytelling, had the choice been made implicitly or explicitly to exclude it. My decision to begin this investigation was triggered by two specific phenomena: a narrative intuition which manifests itself whether one wants it or not when one sees one of these pieces (what is its foundation?), and the existence of texts produced at the reception level which still seem to form a narrative stream when examined. I also felt the need to undertake a more detailed analysis of this non-narrative poetics as laid out by its creators.
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Colin, Daniel dos Santos. "Não-eu : a busca incessante do performer por si mesmo." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/56852.
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Este trabalho de caráter teórico-‐prático propõe-‐se a discutir sobre os espaços situados entre as artes performáticas e o comportamento do mundo contemporâneo centrando-‐se nos processos de criação do performer, tendo o próprio corpo do artista como objeto de estudo. Inserido numa sociedade que dita padrões corporais através da mídia, o performer quer refletir sobre a cultura do corpo utilizando princípios da Performance art e do Teatro pós-‐dramático na construção de uma obra artística. Inspira-‐ se nas noções de “corpo-‐mito” e “imagens geradoras” para investigar em que medida – e através de quais procedimentos -‐ o performer consegue desconstruir/corrigir/transformar/reconstruir seu próprio corpo. Compreende a Performance art como uma arte híbrida, e, para tanto, utiliza-‐se de um grupo de pesquisa cuja interação entre teatro, artes plásticas e video art estruturam os processos criativos.This theoretical-‐practical work proposes to discuss the spaces placed between performing arts and the behavior of contemporary world focusing on the performer’s creative processes, with the artist's own body as an object of study. Within a society that dictates standards body through the media, the performer wants to reflect on the culture of the body using the principles of Performance art and Postdramatic theater in the construction of an artistic work. It is based on notions of "body-‐myth" and "generator images" to investigate how -‐ and through what procedures -‐ the performer can deconstruct/fix/change/rebuild his own body. It understands Performance art as a hybrid art, and, therefore, makes use of a research group whose interaction between theater, visual arts and video art structure creative processes.
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Gallardo, Laurent. "Le théâtre en ses dehors : la poétique des intercesseurs dans l'oeuvre de José Sanchis Sinisterra." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015GREAL004.
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José Sanchis Sinisterra met en œuvre une poétique des intercesseurs qui déborde le drame conventionnel et l'entraîne vers son dehors, là où il est possible d'instaurer des zones de voisinage avec d'anciennes traditions théâtrales et d'autres domaines de création. Cette recherche passe par l’actualisation d'un théâtre baroque populaire tel qu'il se manifeste en Espagne au XVIIème siècle. Il s'agit de revendiquer une conception carnavalesque du drame faisant échec au « bel animal » aristotélicien. En pratiquant l'adaptation, le dramaturge cherche également à confronter la théâtralité à des œuvres porteuses d'un renouveau formel au profit d'une déconstruction remettant en cause les procédés dramatiques traditionnels. Son intérêt pour l'écriture de Kafka participe de ce mouvement général : l'adaptation lui permet d'importer dans le champ théâtral une poétique du discontinu qui déroge aux principes de cohérence, d'unité et de complétude de l'aristotélisme. Poussant cette recherche au-delà des limites littéraires, José Sanchis intègre également les sciences(notamment la physique quantique et la médecine) à sa réflexion afin de faire évoluer les conceptions admises du temps, de l'espace et de l'observation. On remarque que ces trois notions,qui sont celles que la physique quantique redéfinit en marge de la pensée cartésienne, sont généralement traitées au théâtre comme des réalités immanentes. La supposée unité de l'espace-temps marque un seuil au-delà duquel la forme théâtrale ose rarement s'aventurer. Or, c'est cette frontière que le dramaturge souhaite repousser, en développant une représentation du monde inspirée de conceptions scientifiques. Celles-ci constituent dès lors un nouvel intercesseur à même d'alimenter cette déconstruction théâtraleJosé Sanchis Sinisterra builds an intercessor poetics which brims over conventional drama pushing its boundaries beyond the theatre and overlapping with ancient theatre traditions and other creationfields. This search involves updating popular baroque drama, namely as it unfolds in XVII century Spain, claiming a carnival drama conception as opposed to the Aristotelian “beautiful animal.” Through dramatisation, the playwright also aims to confront theatricality to other works bearingformal novelty in favour of a deconstruction that questions traditional drama writing processes. The attention brought to Kafka's works forms part of this general approach: dramatisation allows the author to bring a poetics of discontinuity into dramaturgy, breaking with the Aristotelianprinciples of coherence, unity, and completeness. Sanchis then takes his search beyond literary boundaries as he brings science (quantum physics and medicine in particular) into his thought tomake current conceptions of time, space, and observation evolve. These three concepts, that quantum physics redefines outside the Cartesian logic, are usually dealt with in drama as immanent realities. The assumed space-time unity draws indeed a threshold drama rarely dares to cross. However, this is the very limit the playwright seeks to overstep by building a representation of the world based on scientific conception. These three concepts form thereon a new intercessor likely to fuel this drama deconstruction
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Jackson, CR. "The bastard performer : an exploration of the actor/performer experience in a postdramatic and posthuman intermedial contemporary theatre and performance ecology." Thesis, 2020. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/35727/1/Jackson_whole_thesis.pdf.
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This practice-led research project explores the challenges and experiences faced by the contemporary actor/performer in rehearsal and performance, with specific reference to intermediality, multi-tasking, the intersection of acting/performance styles and interdisciplinary modalities.
Over the last few decades, with the increasingly rapid integration of media technologies into performance, we have found ourselves at another catalytic point in performance history. We are racing to keep up with the possibilities and potentiality presented to us by technology, media and the power of new ‘linguistic’ relationships (Chatzichristodoulou and Crossley 2016) associated with them. The interaction between these different technologies and the performer onstage presents myriad opportunities and potentialities for aesthetic and artistic purposes – an intermedial exchange between the media provided in and of the performer themselves.
The actor/performer’s ever evolving identity and practice is again thrust into a state of flux; forced to navigate and negotiate new hierarchical systems; creative terrain; modal vocabularies; and yet again the question: which image of their ‘selves’ is the dominant note in the polyphony of identity and (re)framing of the ‘performer’? They are largely left ‘in the woods’ to fend for themselves, marginalized (Hamilton 2008) and bastardised.
This research project predominately regards the actor/performer within an intermedial and multimodal postdramatic performance setting. Referencing contemporary practitioners such as Katie Mitchell, Complicite, GobSquad and iv contemporary theorists such as Chiel Kattenbelt, Sarah Bay-Cheng, Robin Nelson, Margaret Hamilton, Andy Lavender, Brigit Wiens, Philip Zarrilli, and Tadashi Suzuki among others.
It explores where the actor/performer sits within this emergent genre overrun with possibilities and hierarchical shifts? What is the experience of an actor/performer within these challenging intermedial works? How does an actor/performer ‘prepare’ for working in such complex conditions, in order to be an active participant in the creative conversations at play within such works? Ultimately, this research project examines how the performer interfaces with intermedial performance; and proposes a mode of practice in which the performer can embrace and be empowered to be an active creative entity in concert with the extension and augmentation of their ‘organic’ abilities through multimedia, technology and (re)mediation present in these platforms – through a posthuman approach to performance.
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Narwová, Michaela. "Dramatik a akcionista Werner Schwab. Příspěvek k rakouské postmoderně." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-297508.
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The thesis gives a comprehensive picture of Werner Schwab, Austrian playwright and performer. He ranked among the most performed German-speaking authors at the time of his death in 1994. The main objective of this work, whose basis lies in Schwab's dramatic production, is to provide a comprehensive monographic study. The thesis deals not only with the dramas, but also with their relationship to the theatrical production of Thomas Bernhard and Elfriede Jelinek. The chapter on the author's personal life is followed by chapters "Postdramatic Theatre", "Theatre of Cruelty", and "Folk Play", where you can find the answer to the question of the place of Schwab's drama in the overall concept of literature at the end of the 20th century. Particular attention is paid to the unique language usage he developed, called "Schwabisch" after the author.
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Montescu, Cristina. "Mer mère noir, théâtre poème : suivi de Réflexions sur la réécriture de la " fable ", à partir de La soif de la montagne de sel de Marin Sorescu." Thèse, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/18197.
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Marešová, Petra. "Hlavní tendence ve vývoji německého politického dramatu s důrazem na současné drama." Doctoral thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-389636.
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In my thesis, I analyse the current German political drama. However, the term political drama or theatre is difficult to define in general. In my work, I understand the concepts of political drama / theatre in the narrower sense, follow the engaged, appellative, left-wing (anti-capitalist) oriented the- atre of E. Piscator and Brecht, and at the same, in the broader sense, as socio-critical drama / theatre, i.e. relating to the problems of today's "polis" (city, state) and following mainly the tradition of new German and Austrian folk plays. In contemporary German political drama, the two trends outlined in the introduction can be traced. In their works, the first line (left-wing appellative) is followed mainly by playwrights and directors F. Richter and R. Pollesch, the other line (socio-critical) by D. Loher, O. Bukowski, T. Walser, or M. von Mayenburg.
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Šemberová, Daria. "Nekrofilie jako láska k budoucnosti: (De-)konstrukce dějin ve vybraný dramatech Heinera Müllera." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-332090.
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Keywords: GDR literature, historical drama, postdramatic theatre, history, memory, Heiner Müller, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Lehrstück Abstract: The aim of this thesis is to analyse the representation of the German history and its relation with the reality of the GDR in selected dramas by Heiner Müller (1929-1995): Germania Death in Berlin, Germania 3 Ghosts at Dead Man, Life of Gundling Frederick of Prussia Lessing's Dream Sleep Scream, The Battle, The Horatian and The Hamletmachine. The main focus of interest is also the approach of the playwright to selected literary and theatrical genres as historical drama, Lehrstück and postdramatic theatre. The philosophical background of the analysis is based mainly on Walter Benjamin's essay On the Concept of History and his description of the painting Angelus Novus by Paul Klee. Furthermore, the thesis examines the methods of dramatization in Heiner Müller's plays.
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Leonard, Luke Landric. "Directing The difficulty of crossing a field : a symbolic and corporeal approach." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-1404.
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This thesis examines an approach to directing Mac Wellman and David Lang’s opera, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field; in addition, the paper reflects on my artistic development as a Master of Fine Arts in Directing student in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin.
As a director I seek a balance between form and content. Similar to Installation Art, I consider the relationship between space/architecture (the stage/theatre) and sculpture, i.e., anything that can be used to create shape: performers, props, scenery, wardrobe, makeup, light, sound, music, language, etc. As a deviser, not a dictator, the success of my work depends greatly on interdisciplinary collaboration and strategies that promote understanding and appreciation among both artists and audiences.
My aim is to create structures for formal elements that when arranged uniquely and sophisticatedly have the ability to provoke emotion, thought, and memory in vivid and compelling ways. This paper explores selected stages of directing The Difficulty of Crossing a Field, the strategies that I employed, and concludes with an artistic statement.text
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Fortin, Dominique. "Mise en voix de l'intime : étude de cinq solos de Marie Brassard." Thèse, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/9821.
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Ce mémoire se penche sur l’évolution des stratégies d’autoreprésentation et d’autofictionnalisation dans cinq solos de Marie Brassard entre 2000 et 2011 – Jimmy, créature de rêve, La noirceur, Peepshow, L’invisible et Moi qui me parle à moi-même dans le futur. L’objectif de cette étude est d’analyser comment les masques vocaux contribuent au dévoilement de soi et produisent de ce fait un sentiment d’intimité malgré l’alternance des effets d’identification et de distanciation qu’ils suscitent. Le premier chapitre montre que, par l’ouverture du moi sur le monde au fil des créations, les protagonistes parviennent bientôt à dire « je » sans avoir la consistance d’un personnage, alors que le moi de l’archiénonciatrice se dilate grâce à la perméabilité et aux permutations continuelles des thèmes, des motifs et des personnages. Le second chapitre analyse le décloisonnement spatial qui affecte la scène et la salle comme la performeuse et ses collaborateurs dans l’établissement d’un véritable dialogisme. À partir de l’étude du corps en scène, le dernier chapitre examine les effets du décloisonnement textuel et spatial, et montre que la mise en évidence du triple rôle endossé par Brassard – auteure, actrice et agenceure scénique – oblige à reconsidérer la nature du corps qui s’offre au regard durant la représentation, en invitant le spectateur à s’investir dans le jeu scénique au-delà des évidences.This dissertation focuses on the development of the strategies of self-representation and autofictionnalisation in five one-woman shows by Marie Brassard between 2000 and 2011 – Jimmy, creature de reve, The Darkness, Peepshow, The Invisible and Me Talking to Myself in the Future. The objective of this study is to analyze the way vocal masks contribute to self-disclosure and thereby produce a feeling of intimacy despite the alternating effects of identification and alienation they engender. The first chapter shows that by opening the “me” to the world through creations, the protagonists soon come to say “I” without having the consistency of a character, while the “me” of the archienonciator expands through continual permeability and permutations of themes, motives and characters. The second chapter analyzes the deregulation affecting the space stage and the audience as well as the performer and her collaborators in the establishment of a genuine dialogism. With the study of the body on stage as its starting point, the last chapter examines the effects of spatial and textual decompartmentalization and shows that the display of the triple role endorsed by Brassard – author, actress and scenic organizer – forces us to reconsider the nature of the body that offers itself to the audience during the performance, inviting the audience member to invest himself in stagecraft beyond what is obvious.
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Χάλκου, Κατερίνα. "Αρχαιόθεμη νεοελληνική δραματουργία και τεχνικές του θεάτρου εν θεάτρω. "Η βουή" του Παύλου Μάτεσι, "Η τελευταία πράξη" του Ιάκωβου Καμπανέλλη και "Οι ηθοποιοί" του Γιώργου Σκούρτη." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10889/7657.
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Την εργασία απασχολούν οι τεχνικές του θεάτρου εν θεάτρω στη νεοελληνική δραματουργία που χρησιμοποιεί τον αρχαίο μύθο ως ανακλαστικό καθρέπτη, ο οποίος τέμνει τις πλοκές του έργου-πλαισίου και του εγκιβωτισμένου έργου και αναπτύσσει μια ειρωνική μεταγλώσσα, που διαφοροποιεί αισθητικά και υφολογικά την επική και τραγική ποίηση από τη νεωτερική, μεταπολεμική δραματουργία που τις εγκιβωτίζει. Αφού εκτεθούν τα προβλήματα που προκύπτουν από την ευρυχωρία του όρου μεταθέατρο, που «εγκιβωτίζει» το θέατρο εν θεάτρω, ο τελευταίος εξετάζεται ως ειδική μορφή, φόρμα, υπο-είδος και τεχνική, όπως ορίστηκε από τη δραματουργία του μπαρόκ, εκείνη της ρομαντικής ειρωνείας, του Πιραντέλλο, μέχρι τη μεταμπρεχτική και μεταμπεκετική δραματική παραγωγή, για να δοθεί τελικώς έμφαση στην αποκλειστικά αρχαιόθεμη ελληνική και αλλοδαπή δραματική σχετική παραγωγή. Στο corpus περιλαμβάνονται τρία νεοελληνικά αρχαιόμυθα έργα: Η βουή (1997) του Παύλου Μάτεσι, που εγκιβωτίζει ανολοκλήρωτη παράσταση και την αυτοσχέδια πρόβα της, με απαγγελίες και μίμηση μικροεπεισοδίων από την Ιλιάδα, και ανεκδοτολογικό υλικό από την τρωική περιπέτεια, σε ένα έργο-πλαίσιο που επανεξετάζει το μύθο των Ατρειδών, υιοθετώντας ανοίκειες σε αυτόν δομές˙ Η τελευταία πράξη (1998) του Ιάκωβου Καμπανέλλη, όπου, με αφορμή το επικό οδυσσεϊκό παρελθόν και μια προγενέστερη πραγμάτευση του μύθου από το συγγραφέα, στήνεται ένα τριπλό θέαμα με ένα εξωσκηνικό δράμα, ένα αθέατο εσωσκηνικό δράμα και μια ανοιχτή προς όλους δοκιμή, με κεντρική μορφή τον αθέατο, διηγητικό Οδυσσέα, που διεκδικεί νέα οδύσσεια μέσω του θεάτρου˙ και Οι ηθοποιοί (2001) του Γιώργου Σκούρτη, όπου οι ηθοποιοί-χαρακτήρες του διεκδικούν με το εγκιβωτισμένο έργο εγκατάσταση στη «σοβαρή μυθολογία», εμφανίζοντας τον προς παράσταση Αγαμέμνονα ως Βίβλο, στις διατάξεις της οποίας υπάγονται τα περιστατικά των τριών τους, προκειμένου να ελεγχθούν οι εκλεκτικές τους συγγένειες με τους ήρωες του οίκου των Ατρειδών. Η μελέτη στα εν λόγω θεατρικά έργα, των χρήσεων των εγκιβωτισμών παραστάσεων και προβών, σε καθορισμένα ή συγκεχυμένα χρονικά και χωρικά πλαίσια, επιχειρεί να εξηγήσει τις δυνατότητες μετατόπισης ηθοποιών και εξωκειμενικών θεατών σε ρητές ή άρρητες μυθοπλασίες, καθώς και τις δυνατότητες παραβίασης του συνόρου μύθου και πραγματικότητας. Εξηγείται κατά πόσον σε επίπεδο υπερκειμενικής ζενετικής διακειμενικότητας τα υποκείμενα έργα καθορίζουν τη μυθοπλασία του έργου-πλαισίου, του εγκιβωτισμένου ή και των δύο, και αν δικαιώνεται ο χαρακτηρισμός υποκείμενο ως ενθυλακωμένο έργο στο υπερκείμενό του πρωτεύον. Η συνεξέταση συμβάλλει στον έλεγχο τού κατά πόσον η εγκιβωτισμένη ή η πλαισιωτική μυθοπλασία, που αρδεύεται από την προϋπάρχουσα κειμενική τραγική, επική ή άλλη κλασική παράδοση, κυρώνει ή υπονομεύει τις τραγικές δέσεις και λύσεις ή διανοίγει προοπτικές σε νέους μύθους. Μέσα από την εξέταση, διαφαίνεται πώς ο χειρισμός του θεάτρου εν θεάτρω γίνεται ένας χειρισμός μιας ρητορικής περί της ύπαρξης, της αναβίωσης ή του θανάτου του αρχαίου μύθου στο πεδίο της νεωτερικότητας.-
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Carpentier, Mélanie. "Postdramatisme et esthétique de l’indécidabilité dans Cleansed et Phaedra’s Love de Sarah Kane." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11647.
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Face à l’opacité interprétative et la faillite du langage auxquelles nous nous heurtons dans l’analyse des œuvres-chocs de Sarah Kane, quelle approche nous permettrait de commenter exhaustivement les formes et les moyens mis en œuvre par la dramaturge pour imprimer sa marque dans l’esprit du spectateur contemporain? Le théâtre postdramatique, paradigme élaboré par Hans-Thies Lehmann, présenterait a priori un dispositif pertinent pour faire lumière sur des problématiques contemporaines cruciales en jeu dans l’œuvre de Kane. Aucunement univoque, car soumis à l’interprétation et à l’engagement du spectateur, le caractère politique des pièces, pourtant spectral, s’avère ici essentiel. Ce spectre politique se laisse percevoir à travers le prisme de la violence et la nécessité du choc semble être son parti pris pour redéfinir le rôle du théâtre dans nos sociétés modernes caractérisées par la circulation massive des images à travers les nouveaux médias. Un lien de coresponsabilité de l’artiste et du spectateur se crée: l’œuvre nous interroge, spectateur/lecteur, sur la part mystérieuse de ce fond de cruauté humaine et sur notre complicité dans l’omniprésence de la violence à travers la consommation de ses produits. Mettant en relief les caractères transgressifs venant bousculer nos affects à travers des références à la « culture d’en bas » et un exercice des limites du spectaculaire centré sur l’obscène et le détournement des codes de la pornographie, cette lecture postdramatique de Cleansed et de Phaedra’s love entend restituer à l’œuvre de Kane son énergie pour un changement qui passe par un éveil des sens.Faced with the interpretive opacity and failure of language in the analysis of Sarah Kane’s violent plays, what approach could allow us to review the forms and means used by the playwright in order to leave her mark in the mind of the contemporary viewer? The paradigm of the post-dramatic theater, proposed by Hans-Thies Lehmann, constitutes an appropriate device for highlighting the contemporary issues at stake in the work of Kane. Since it strongly depends on the interpretation and the engagement of the viewer, the meaning of the plays are not univocal. Their spectral political nature proves essential here. This political spectrum reveals itself through the prism of violence. The necessity of shock appears to be its bias to redefine the role of theater in modern societies characterized by the flow of images through mass media. A link of co-responsibility between artist and viewer is created. Indeed as viewers/readers, Kane’s plays lead us to question ourselves on the mysterious and intimate depths of human cruelty and our complicity with the omnipresence of violence through consumption of its products. By focusing on the transgressive characteristics of Kane’s dramatic art that shake viewers out of their affective complacency through the references to "culture from below" and through the use of an obscene language and imagery, and through the diversion of pornography’s codes, this postdramatic reading of Cleansed and Phaedra's love intends to restore the energy inherent in Kane’s work. It is an energy that aims for radical change by awakening our senses.
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Celárková, Michaela. "Poetika vybraných her Ronalda Schimmelpfenniga uvedených na českých scénách v kontextu současného německojazyčného divadla." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-324798.
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This thesis presents the work of a contemporary German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig in a wider context. In the main chapter, the author focuses on the analysis of five Schimmelpfennig's plays that have been performed also on Czech theatre stages. The analysis emphasizes the elements of a dramatic structure that Schimmelpfennig uses in an innovative way: epization of texts, unrealistic treatment of dramatic time, elements of magic realism etc. The author also pays attention to a general characteristic of a contemporary German-speaking theatre with respect to the topics that it deals with. A significant part of the work is devoted to classifying Roland Schimmelpfennig's work in the historical and theoretical context of a contemporary German-speaking theatre. A book called Die Rückkehr der Helden by a German author Nikolaus Frei, which questions some opinion on the recent development of theatre presented in a book Postdramatisches Theater by Hans Thiese Lehmann, has become a crucial source for this thesis. Nikolaus Frei copes with the question of animateness/inanimateness of theatre and by using extracts from particular dramatic texts by contemporary authors proves a possible continuity of mimesis, realistic acting and conflicts on the stage until the 21st century. In conclusion, it is possible...
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Chvátalová, Martina. "Politické divadlo Falka Richtera v postdramatickém kontextu." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-336930.
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(Anglicky) This diploma thesis conducts a survey of dramatic and theatre work of contemporary German dramatist and director Falk Richter (born 1969) in the context of German political theatre of 20th century, thus primarily Brecht and Piscator tradition. At the same time, the concepts of political and post-dramatic theatre are defined and elaborated. The work points out that the current political function of theatre and its chance to directly influence social reality is understood differently than in the case of both pre-war and post-war epic drama by Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht, or in the documentary drama of the 1960s. The key goal of the thesis is to analyze and interpret chosen Richter's dramatic writings and mainly the project Trust, which was created in collaboration with Dutch choreographer Anouk van Dijk. The project can be perceived as a current form of Richter's poetry, which gradually deviates from the "drama" theatre and inclines to motion drama with dance and performance elements. It is showed how the authors deal with present social and personal issues, which are transformed into theatre expression, motion and dance. At last, the thesis examines in what consists the politics of this project.