Staging 21st Century Tragedies (eBook, PDF)

Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis
Redaktion: Sidiropoulou, Avra

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Produktbeschreibung

Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis is an international collection of essays by leading academics, artists, writers, and curators examining ways in which the global tragedies of our century are being negotiated in current theatre practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000598872
• Artikelnr.: 63894632

Autorenporträt

Avra Sidiropoulou is Associate Professor at the M.A. in Theatre Studies Programme at the Open University of Cyprus and Artistic Director of Athens-based Persona Theatre Company. She is the author of Directions for Directing. Theatre and Method (Routledge 2018) and Authoring Performance: The Director in Contemporary Theatre (Palgrave Macmillan 2011). She was Visiting Researcher at MIT and the Graduate Centre at CUNY, the Freie University, the Universities of Surrey, Leeds, and Tokyo (Japan Foundation Fellow). Avra has lectured, directed, and conducted theatre workshops in many parts of the globe. Recent directing works include Sophie Treadwell's Machinal (Cyprus Theatre Organization 2022), Bryony Lavery's Frozen (Skala Theatre 2020), Phaedra I- (text: Sidiropoulou-Tristan Bates Theatre, London 2019), and A Doll's House (Technochoros Ethal 2019). She was nominated for the League of Professional Theatre Women Gilder/Goigney International Award 2020. https://persona.gr/en/people/avra-sidiropoulou/.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Crisis as Tragedy and Judgment

1. Tragedy and Crisis: Staging Forced Displacement and Its Reluctant Hero



Yana Meerzon



2. Beyond Suffering or Resolution: Tragedy and the Twenty-First Century Collective Experience



Avra Sidiropoulou



3. Prophets Needed: Five Easy Pieces and La Reprise: Histoire(s) du théâtre (I) by Milo Rau



Carol Martin



estimony 1.1. Avra Sidiropoulou in Conversation with Daniel Wetzel of Rimini Protokoll

estimony 1.2. Cards of Identities (Poetic luxury)



Hanane Hajj Ali



estimony 1.3. Chorus and Crisis in the Contemporary United States



Peter Campbell



Part 2: Texts and Contexts of Crisis: Power/lessness, Precarity and Identity Politics

4. Caesar Must (Not) Die. Italian Political 'Caesars' in the New Millennium



Silvia Bigliazzi



5. Leaving the world good or leaving a better world? Theatre and crisis through the lenses of Bertolt Brecht



Aldo Milohnic



6. Tragic and Post-tragic Representations of Precarity in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Drama: Fractured Togetherness in Lynn Nottage's Sweat and Annie Baker's The Flick



Ana Fernandez Caparrós



7. Modern African Drama in Crisis? Two African Authors in Search of Identity



Taiwo Afolabi, Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah and Ogah Mark Onwe



Part 3: Stage Narratives of Failure or Visions of a Better World? Bankrupt States, Violent Cities, Global Resistance Civic Consciousness and the Poetics of Participation

8. "Theatre remains traditionalist and Eurocentric." About Milo Rau's "theatre of crisis"



Freddy Decreus



9. "How Many More Thousands of Years?": Dystopia, Otherness, and the Greek Crisis in the Work of Three Contemporary Greek Dramatists



Constantina Ziropoulou



10. Theatre as Assembly: 'Theatre Commons' Radical Dramaturgy



Tadashi Uchino



11. Marca España. Making Theatre from Precarity, State Violence and Fiesta



Ana Contreras Elvira



estimony 3.1. Aoidoi of a Country's Living History



Lupe Gehrenbech



Part 4: Reflections on the Covid 19 Pandemic and the Crisis of the Anthropocene

12. For the theatre of the Anthropocene



Frank Raddatz



Testimony 4.1. Theatre in Covid imes: A Report from Greece



Anestis Azas



Testimony 4.2. All is related to Me



Su Xiaogang



Testimony 4.3. Plays (we never staged) to survive



Miguel Rojo and Javier Hernando (Los Barbaros)



Testimony 4.4. Troy Too [Original playscript]



Karen Malpede (Theatre Three Collaborative)