Weakening spectatorship
What the trajectory of modern Western theatre shows is a drastic taming of the audience. Paradoxically, the discovery of the “physiological man” that realism and naturalism achieved, as Garner accurately points out, was accompanied by a perceptual deactivation of the audience’s own physical presence (2007: 116). Continue Reading
Global Theatre
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Re-visiting the Community: The Politics of Theatre Beyond the Theatre
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Europe: from Transnational Common wealth to Intercultural Dialogue Or “Working the Machine” of Democratic Institutions
Odile Popescu , An interview with Heinz-Uwe Haus
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Today democracy is bound to the recognition of pluralism and difference. Theatre too cannot escape such a debate. It cannot avoid the question of its socio-economic basis and the political and economic analysis of the transformations created by globalization.Before we embark on this analysis, however, we must acknowledge the great diversity of interculturalism and of the related genres. (…) Continue Reading
