Publication Date:
2024-03-23
Description:
What does it mean to violate the law on a theatrical stage? This is the central question in the following examination of modern theatre, beginning with the avant-garde, but also including the contemporary and iconoclastic work of the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio. For the historical avant-garde, art could be the gateway to a new and liberated reality. But then all of existing reality first had to be demolished, and its laws consistently violated. Ultimately, this transgressive programme ends in discouragement and self-sabotage. Such an 'anti-theatre' has been explored most extensively in the writings of the French director and essayist Antonin Artaud. A careful exploration of Artaud's work, emphasizing his actual theatrical productions, shows that this paradox does not necessarily lead to a dead end. Generalized transgression may lead to a theatre that belongs more to philosophy than to art itself.
Keywords:
anti-theater
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historische avant-garde
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theater
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antonin artaud
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historical avant-garde
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thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe::1DDF France
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thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AC Germanic and Scandinavian languages::2ACF Flemish
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thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
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thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5A Interest age / level::5AX For adult emergent readers
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thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATC Individual actors and performers
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thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies
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thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DD Plays, playscripts
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thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSG Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Language:
Dutch
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