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Upon his recent death, this article revisits the major contributions of Dr. Hans-Thies Lehmann to contemporary debates on theatre aesthetics. Lehmann’s concept of a postdramatic theatre—that is, a theatre that has moved beyond the central importance of ...
Joseph Cermatori
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Contemporary Drama and the Question of the Neo-avant-garde Legacy of the 1960s and 1970s [PDF]
To some extent, contemporary drama is the heir of the neo-avant-garde of the late 1960s and 1970s. This time was that of the so-called performative turn, which pulled theatre away from representation and towards presentation.
Gašper Troha
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The article analyses the transformations of the genre of drama in the context of the postdramatic theatre. Contrary to the affirmations of Hans-Thies Lehmann, the main theoretician of the postdramatic theatre, a text of a drama is not always only one of ...
Ina Pukelytė
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Staging Scores: Devising Contemporary Performances from Classical Music
In this article, Egan and Pinchbeck combine Postdramatic Theatre (Lehmann, 2006), Composed Theatre (Rebstock and Roesner, 2012) and Score Theatre (Spagnolo, 2017) to address the representation of classical music in two separate contemporary performances ...
Kevin Egan, Michael David Pinchbeck
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Collective Improvisation: The Practice and Vision of Ingemar Lindh [PDF]
Ingemar Lindh's research on the principles of collective improvisation and performance conceived as process announce an important development in the 20th-century tradition of the actor's work.
Camilleri, Frank
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Deconstructing Character and Identity In Martin Crimp's Attempts on Her Life
This research examines Martin Crimp's masterpiece Attempts on Her Life as an exemplary instance of postdramatic writing. It investigates the ways in which this play can be considered postdramatic through discussing the postdramatic values incorporated ...
Basma Ramadan
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What is the relationship of postdramatic theatre--and more specifically autobiographical performance--to societal and cultural contexts within which they have emerged? This is the question I examine in this article.
Anneli Saro
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ABSTRACT This article explores the theatrical witness project Die letzten Zeugen (2013) by the Austrian writer Doron Rabinovici as an example of a methodological transition in Testimony Studies, one which shifts the focus from psychoanalytic engagement with the survivors’ experiences towards a collective approach to testimony at the end of the so ...
Sanna Stegmaier
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Solo performance is a theatrical form which has been increasingly popular in contemporary Irish theatre with the rise of individualism. This paper takes the works of two representative solo performers in contemporary Irish theatre, Pat Kinevane and Panti
Zixin Huang
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Notes on postdramatic theatre’s death [PDF]
For many years drama theatre has been accepted almost as a synonym for the theatre itself, but at the beginning of the 20th century scenic art became enmeshed in firmly embraced stereotypes. A number of stage directors and theatre theorists were engaged in discussion about the crisis in drama and began to develop new scenic forms. Towards the middle of
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