Fischer-Lichte Dionysus Resurrected

Performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a Globalizing World
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-60975-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell-Bristol Lectures on Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition

Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence sincethe late 1960s of Euripides' The Bacchae. By analyzingand contextualizing these modern day performances, the authorreveals striking parallels between transformational events takingplace during the era of the play's revival and events withinthe play itself.
* Puts forward a lively discussion of the parallels betweentransformational eventsduring the era of the play's revivaland events within the play itself
* The first comparative study to analyse and contextualizeperformances of The Bacchae that took place between 1968 and2009 from the United States, Africa, Latin America, Europe andAsia
* Argues that presentations of the play not only representliminal states but also transfer the spectators into suchstates
* Contends that the play's reflection on various stages ofglobalization render the tragedy a contemporary play
* Establishes the importance of The Bacchae withinEuripides' work as the only extant tragedy in which the godDionysus himself appears, not just as a character but as theprotagonist

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fischer-Lichte, Erika

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
-Rediscovering The Bacchae -
Part I: Festivals of Liberation: Celebrating Communality25
Chapter 1: The Birth Ritual of a New Theatre 27
- Richard Schechner's Dionysus in 69
in New York (1968) -
Chapter 2: Celebrating a Communion Rite? 48
- Wole Soyinka's The Bacchae of Euripides
at London's National Theatre (1973) -
Chapter 3: Sparagmos and Omophagia 72
- Teat(r)o Oficina's Bacantes in SãoPaulo (1996) -
Part II: Renegotiating Cultural Identities 91
Chapter 4: On the Strangeness and Inaccessibility of the Past93
- The Antiquity Project at the Schaubühne
Berlin (1974) -
Chapter 5: Performing or Contaminating Greekness? 116
- Theodoros Terzopoulos' The Bacchae in
Delphi (1986) -
Chapter 6: In Search of New Identities 136
- Krzysztof Warlikowski's The Bacchae
in Warsaw (2001) -
Part III: Productive Encounter or Destructive Clash ofCultures? 157
Chapter 7: Dismemberment and the Quest for Wholeness 159
- Suzuki Tadashi's The Bacchae in Japan andon
World Tour (1978-2006) -
Chapter 8: Transforming Kathakali 186
- The Bacchae by Guru Sadanam P. V.Balakrishnan
in Delphi and New Delhi (1998) -
Chapter 9: Beijing Opera Dismembered 206
- Peter Steadman and Chen Shi-zheng's TheBacchae
in Beijing (1996) -
Epilogue 225
Index of names 00
Index of subjects 0

Über Autor(innen)

Erika Fischer-Lichte is Professor of Theatre Studies atthe Institut für Theaterwissenschaft at the Freie Universitaetof Berlin and Director of the International Research Centre"Interweaving Performance Cultures". She has publishedextensively on the history of the theatre and on the reception ofGreek tragedy. Her most recent publications include Theatre,Sacrifice, Ritual: Exploring Forms of Political Theatre (2005),The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics(2008), and Performance and the Politics of Space: Theatre andTopology (edited with Benjamin Wihstutz, 2012).