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Holocaust Drama
The Holocaust - the systematic attempted destruction of European Jewry and other 'threats' to the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945 - has been portrayed in fiction, film, memoirs, and poetry. Gene Plunka's study will add to this chronicle with an examination of the theatre of the Holocaust. Including thorough critical analyses of more than thirty plays, this book explores the seminal twentieth-century Holocaust dramas from the United States, Europe, and Israel. Biographical information about the playwrights, production histories of the plays, and pertinent historical information are provided, placing the plays in their historical and cultural contexts.
The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust
Grzegorz Niziolek's The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and society from 1945 to the present. It reveals the role of theatre as a crucial medium of collective memory – and collective forgetting – of the trauma of the Holocaust carried out by the Nazis on Polish soil. The period gave rise to two of the most radical and influential theatrical ideas during work on productions that addressed the subject of the Holocaust – Grotowski's Poor Theatre and Kantor's Theatre of Death - but the author examines a deeper impact in the role that theatre played in the processes of collective disavowal to being a witnes...
Performance, Ethics and Spectatorship in a Global Age
This book takes performance studies in exciting new directions, exploring the ways in which ethics can be used to understand the complex questions facing contemporary spectators. Engaging with five key performances, the book reflects on the emotional and intellectual impacts of politically inflected performance on spectators, critics and theorists.
Ludics in Surrealist Theatre and Beyond
Taking as its point of departure the complex question about whether Surrealist theatre exists, this book re-examines the much misunderstood artistic medium of theatre within Surrealism, especially when compared to poetry and painting. This study reconsiders Surrealist theatre specifically from the perspective of ludics-a poetics of play and games-an ideal approach to the Surrealists, whose games blur the boundaries between the 'playful' and the 'serious.' Vassiliki Rapti's aims are threefold: first, to demystify André Breton's controversial attitude toward theatre; second, to do justice to Surrealist theatre, by highlighting the unique character that derives from its inherent element of pla...
Spatiality and Subjecthood in Mallarmé, Apollinaire, Maeterlinck, and Jarry
This study explores the interrelationship between spatiality and subjecthood in the work of Stéphane Mallarmé, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Alfred Jarry. Concerned with various modes of poetry and drama, it also examines the cross-pollination that can occur between these modes, focusing on a range of core texts including Mallarmé's Igitur and Un Coup de dés; Apollinaire's 'Zone' and various of his calligrammes; Maeterlinck's early one-act plays: L'Intruse, Les Aveugles, and Intérieur; and Jarry's Ubu roi and César-Antechrist.. The poetic and dramatic practices of these four authors are assessed against the broader cultural and philosophical contexts of the fin de si�...
Text & Presentation, 2012
Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international and interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference.
Victims and Victimization in French and Francophone Literature
Preliminary Material /Buford Norman -- Crimes collectifs, transmission et médias: la représentation des victimes dans l'espace public français /Vincent Lowy -- The Metaphors of Victimization in Céline's Bagatelles pour un massacre /Scott M. Powers -- Monstre-victime: La Deuxième existence du camp de Tatenberg /Agnieszka Tworek -- Mourir est-il vraiment beau? L'"écritorture" de Gérard Étienne /Corinne Beauquis -- "Une humanité qui ne cesse de crucifier le Christ": Réécriture du sacrifice christique dans Sitt Marie Rose de Étel Adnan /Élisabeth Karnoub -- Good and Bad Bread: Sacrificing the Sacred and Abject Other in Jean-Pierre Camus /Anne E. Duggan -- Théodicées victimales au ...
Staging History from the Shoah to Palestine
This book is a contribution to the emerging field of research-based performance, which seeks to gain a wider audience for issues that are crucial to our understanding of history and to informing our future actions. The book examines the role of theater in portraying the Shoah in France, the French Resistance, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Each of the three chapters consists of an original dramatic work by the author and an accompanying critical essay.
Between Opera and Cinema
Leading scholars of opera and film explore the many ways these two seemingly unrelated genres have come together from the silent-film era to today.
