The problem of the existence or not of a reality, which outside the dimension of the intelligent subject, that is, the relationship of the subjectivity of conscience and the objectivity of the world, comprises an issue lending itself to a multiplicity of approaches and dimensions such as ontology, gnosology, psychology and metaphysics, neurophysiology and sociology. Continue Reading
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Absent presence of illusion and present absence of the picture from the pictorial symbols of the theatre to the virtual symbolisation of the real
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Catharsis for the Bourgeois
In a commentary on Ethika Nikomacheia by Aristotle, the critic, Andreas Dalezios, points out «… in vain would one look for a declaration of moral commands, addressed to young people, slaves or low-class workers.» Continue Reading
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The Greek Society during the period of crisis. The role of History as a mechanism of repelling the present
As the beginning of the 21st cenutury, Greece has been caught in the vortex of great economic, social, cultural and political turbulence, which has upturned its smooth European course and has brought about radical changes in the attitude, ideology and economic situation of the Greek citizens. Continue Reading
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“The Theater as Cultural Phenomenon”, Athens: Papazisis ed., 2015
The theater as a multi-significant cultural phenomenon and interactive communication system, as artistic creation, social event and formative/educational good constitutes both the bearer and the content of civilisation, the trace and the indicator of the human course of development from the primitive era to the age of globalization. Continue Reading
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Re-visiting the Community: The Politics of Theatre Beyond the Theatre
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 -
The folk tale of the pied piper of Hamelin for an animating theatre pedagogy
DRAMA ANIMATION
Some people might ask why theatre is so important during school: the answer is, in order to lighten up the children’s souls, to help them achieve self-knowledge through the significant, everyday issues of life presented to them, as well as to make them discover the many prospects of knowledge and understand the functions of being. By offering them an overall perception of themselves and the world, theatre becomes a vehicle for holistic learning. Continue Reading
