Postdramatic Tragedies - Cole, Emma

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Résumé :

• Frontmatter


• List of Illustrations


• 0: Introduction


• The Development of Postdramatic Theatre


• Postdramatic Tragedies, 1995-2015


• Part One: Rewriting the Classics


• Introduction to Part One


• 1: Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love


• Tragedy and the Oeuvre of Sarah Kane


• Masculinity and Sexuality in Phaedra's Love: Text and Performance


• Violence and Voyeurism in Phaedra's Love: Text and Performance


• 2: Martin Crimp's Alles Weitere kennen Sie aus dem Kino


• The Postdramatic Tragic Chorus


• Socio-Cultural Politics in Alles Weitere kennen Sie aus dem Kino


• The Postdramatic Aesthetic of Repetition


• 3: Tom Holloway's Love Me Tender


• The Role of Text in Australian Postdramatic Classical Receptions


• The Postdramatic Realisation of Love Me Tender: Scenes One Three


• Politics and the Postdramatic in Love Me Tender: Scenes Four Eight


• The Classical Palimpsest in Love Me Tender: Scenes Nine Fifteen


• Part Two: Devising the Classics


• Introduction to Part Two


• 4: The Wooster Group's To You, The Birdie!


• Devising via Euripides, Seneca, and Racine


• The Politics of To You, The Birdie!'s Postdramatic Form


• Gender, Class, and the Classics in To You, The Birdie!: Source Texts and Performance


• 5: The Hayloft Project's Thyestes


• Devising and Performing Thyestes


• The Gender Politics of Thyestes


• The Postdramatic Techniques and Violent Aesthetic of Thyestes


• Part Three: Transcending the Boundaries of Time and Space


• Introduction to Part Three


• 6: ZU-UK's Hotel Medea


• Analysing Emancipation


• Intellectual Agency in Hotel Medea and the Postcolonial Tradition of Medea Receptions


• Felt Agency and the Domestication of Medea


• Navigational Agency and Multi-Perspectivalism in Hotel Medea


• 7: Jan Fabre's Mount Olympus: To Glorify the Cult of Tragedy (A 24-Hour Performance)


• Mount Olympus as Postdramatic Classical Reception


• Emancipation, Immersion, and Ethics


• Mount Olympus as Modern Tragedy


• 8: Conclusion


• Endmatter


• Bibliography


• Index