A Constant Replay? American Avant-garde Theatre in the Context
of 21st Century Post-dramaticality

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A Constant Replay? American Avant-garde Theatre in the Context of 21st Century Post-dramaticality

KAČER, Tomáš

Basic information

Original name

A Constant Replay? American Avant-garde Theatre in the Context of 21st Century Post-dramaticality

Authors

KAČER, Tomáš (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

14th ESSE Conference, 29 August - 2 September, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 2018

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60403 Performing arts studies

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/18:00103612

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Avant-garde theatre; Wooster Group; postdramatic theatre

Abstract

V originále

The history of the American avant-garde theatre is inseparable from a discussion of a relationship between the text and the performance. The Wooster Group is a theatre company that has prioritized the theatrical over the dramatic to an extreme point. For example, the 1990 Brace Up! production (a version of Chekhov’s Three Sisters) broke most conventions of realist dramatic theatre and its 2003 revival amplified this anti-realist mode by a number of reworkings of and references to the original production. The Wooster Group’s latest production The Pink Chair (2018) develops post-dramatic modes of expression in the theatre and explores a potential of replay and reiteration in a performance. Further examples will be drawn from works by The Elevator Repair Service (New York City) and Rude Mechanicals (Austin, Texas). My paper aims to develop a discussion of “a central paradigm for the twenty-first century theatre,” as proposed in the seminar description, with a perspective of contemporary American avant-garde theatre productions. These may serve as a case in point when studying trends relating to, for example, the power of theatre to address current social, political and artistic issues; and the fluidity of categories such as characters and plot in a live performance.

Links

MUNI/A/1003/2017, interní kód MU

Name: Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě III (Acronym: PROVYZAN III)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

KAČER, Tomáš. A Constant Replay? American Avant-garde Theatre in the Context of 21st Century Post-dramaticality. In 14th ESSE Conference, 29 August - 2 September, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. 2018.

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KAČER, Tomáš. A Constant Replay? American Avant-garde Theatre in the Context of 21st Century Post-dramaticality. In \textit{14th ESSE Conference, 29 August - 2 September, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic}. 2018.

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