Postdramatic Tragedies

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-881768-0
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 543 g

Ancient tragedy has played a well-documented role in contemporary theatre since the mid-twentieth century. In addition to the often-commented-upon watershed productions, however, is a significant but overlooked history involving classical tragedy in experimental and avant-garde theatre. Postdramatic Tragedies focuses upon such experimental reinventions and analyses receptions of Greek and Roman tragedy that come under the banner of 'postdramatic theatre', a style of performance in which the traditional components of drama, such as character and narrative, are subordinate to the immediate, affective power of more abstract elements, such as image and sound. The chapters are arranged into three parts, each of which explores classical reception within a specific strand of postdramatic theatre: text-based theatre, devised theatre, and theatre that transcends the usual boundaries of time and space, such as durational and immersive theatre. Each offers a semiotic and phenomenological analysis of a particular case study, covering both widely known and less studied productions from 1995 to 2015. Together they reveal that postdramatic theatre is related to the classics at its conceptual core, and that the study of postdramatic tragedies reveals a great deal about both the evolution of theatre in recent decades, and the status of ancient drama in modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cole, Emma

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Frontmatter

- List of Illustrations

- 0: Introduction

- The Development of Postdramatic Theatre

- Postdramatic Tragedies, 1995-2015

- Part One: Rewriting the Classics

- Introduction to Part One

- 1: Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love

- Tragedy and the Oeuvre of Sarah Kane

- Masculinity and Sexuality in Phaedra's Love: Text and Performance

- Violence and Voyeurism in Phaedra's Love: Text and Performance

- 2: Martin Crimp's Alles Weitere kennen Sie aus dem Kino

- The Postdramatic Tragic Chorus

- Socio-Cultural Politics in Alles Weitere kennen Sie aus dem Kino

- The Postdramatic Aesthetic of Repetition

- 3: Tom Holloway's Love Me Tender

- The Role of Text in Australian Postdramatic Classical Receptions

- The Postdramatic Realisation of Love Me Tender: Scenes One Three

- Politics and the Postdramatic in Love Me Tender: Scenes Four Eight

- The Classical Palimpsest in Love Me Tender: Scenes Nine Fifteen

- Part Two: Devising the Classics

- Introduction to Part Two

- 4: The Wooster Group's To You, The Birdie!

- Devising via Euripides, Seneca, and Racine

- The Politics of To You, The Birdie!'s Postdramatic Form

- Gender, Class, and the Classics in To You, The Birdie!: Source Texts and Performance

- 5: The Hayloft Project's Thyestes

- Devising and Performing Thyestes

- The Gender Politics of Thyestes

- The Postdramatic Techniques and Violent Aesthetic of Thyestes

- Part Three: Transcending the Boundaries of Time and Space

- Introduction to Part Three

- 6: ZU-UK's Hotel Medea

- Analysing Emancipation

- Intellectual Agency in Hotel Medea and the Postcolonial Tradition of Medea Receptions

- Felt Agency and the Domestication of Medea

- Navigational Agency and Multi-Perspectivalism in Hotel Medea

- 7: Jan Fabre's Mount Olympus: To Glorify the Cult of Tragedy (A 24-Hour Performance)

- Mount Olympus as Postdramatic Classical Reception

- Emancipation, Immersion, and Ethics

- Mount Olympus as Modern Tragedy

- 8: Conclusion

- Endmatter

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Emma Cole is a Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Classics at the University of Bristol. She received her doctorate from UCL in 2015 and since then has published widely on the reception of Greek and Roman literature (primarily tragedy and epic) in contemporary theatre, including the co-edited collection Adapting Translation for the Stage (with Geraldine Brodie; Routledge, 2017), and chapters and articles on the work of Katie Mitchell (2015), Martin Crimp (2016), and Sarah Kane (2017). From 2019-2021 she is completing an AHRC leadership fellowship, during which she will undertake a project investigating immersivity and the classics with a focus on British theatre company Punchdrunk.