Postdramatic Theatre and Postdramatic Performance

Beginning with the concept of a postdramatic theatre as articulated by the German theorist Hans-Thies Lehmann, this essay considers the recent work of several major international directors – Ivo van Hove, Punchdrunk, Signa and others – as examples of postdramatic performance. It argues that what the...

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Autor: Carlson (The City University of New York – New York, United States of America), Marvin
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/53731
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/53731
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Theatre
Performance
Postdramatic
Hans-Thies Lehmann
Arts
Théâtre
Postdramatique
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Sumario:Beginning with the concept of a postdramatic theatre as articulated by the German theorist Hans-Thies Lehmann, this essay considers the recent work of several major international directors – Ivo van Hove, Punchdrunk, Signa and others – as examples of postdramatic performance. It argues that what they have in common is a challenge to the traditional concept of mimesis and of the theatre world as a fictional construct distinctly separated from everyday life and its surroundings.