Dionysus Resurrected

Performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a Globalizing World

AvErika Fischer-Lichte

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Del i serien Blackwell-Bristol Lectures on Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition

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Beskrivning

Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence since the late 1960s of Euripides’ The Bacchae. By analyzing and contextualizing these modern day performances, the author reveals striking parallels between transformational events taking place during the era of the play’s revival and events within the play itself. Puts forward a lively discussion of the parallels between transformational eventsduring the era of the play’s revival and events within the play itselfThe first comparative study to analyse and contextualize performances of The Bacchae that took place between 1968 and 2009 from the United States, Africa, Latin America, Europe and AsiaArgues that presentations of the play not only represent liminal states but also transfer the spectators into such statesContends that the play’s reflection on various stages of globalization render the tragedy a contemporary playEstablishes the importance of The Bacchae within Euripides’ work as the only extant tragedy in which the god Dionysus himself appears, not just as a character but as the protagonist

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-12-13
Mått:163 x 239 x 20 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Blackwell-Bristol Lectures on Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9781405175784

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Teater inom Kultur

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ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE is Professor of Theatre Studies at the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft at the Freie Universität of Berlin and Director of the International research centre "Interweaving Performance cultures." She has published extensively on the history of the theatre and on the reception of Greek tragedy. Her most recent publications include Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual: Exploring Forms of Political Theatre (2005), The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics (2008), and Performance and the Politics of Space: Theatre and Topology (edited with Benjamin Wihstutz, 2012).

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments viiPreface ixIntroduction 1–Rediscovering The Bacchae –Part I: Festivals of Liberation: Celebrating Communality 25Chapter 1: The Birth Ritual of a New Theatre 27– Richard Schechner’s Dionysus in 69 in New York (1968) –Chapter 2: Celebrating a Communion Rite? 48– Wole Soyinka’s The Bacchae of Euripides at London’s National Theatre (1973) –Chapter 3: Sparagmos and Omophagia 72– Teat(r)o Oficina’s Bacantes in São Paulo (1996) –Part II: Renegotiating Cultural Identities 91Chapter 4: On the Strangeness and Inaccessibility of the Past 93– The Antiquity Project at the Schaubühne Berlin (1974) –Chapter 5: Performing or Contaminating Greekness? 116– Theodoros Terzopoulos’ The Bacchae in Delphi (1986) –Chapter 6: In Search of New Identities 136– Krzysztof Warlikowski’s The Bacchae in Warsaw (2001) –Part III: Productive Encounter or Destructive Clash of Cultures? 157Chapter 7: Dismemberment and the Quest for Wholeness 159– Suzuki Tadashi’s The Bacchae in Japan and on World Tour (1978–2008) –Chapter 8: Transforming Kathakali 186– The Bacchae by Guru Sadanam P. V. Balakrishnan in Delphi and New Delhi (1998) –Chapter 9: Beijing Opera Dismembered 206– Peter Steadman and Chen Shi-zheng’s The Bacchae in Beijing (1996) –Epilogue 225Name Index 231Subject Index 236