Performing History: Theatrical Representations of the Past in Conetmporary Theatre

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University of Iowa Press, 25.04.2002 - 256 Seiten
In his examination of the ways in which theatre participates in the ongoing representations of and debates about the past, Freddie Rokem concentrates on the ways in which theatre after World War II has presented different aspects of the French Revolution and the Holocaust, showing us that by “performing history” actors bring the historical past and the theatrical present together.

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Introduction The Notions of Performing History
1
Refractions of the Shoah on Israeli Stages Theatre and Survival
27
The Theatrical Modes of Israeli Shoah Performances
31
Yehoshua Sobol Ghetto
38
Dudu Maayan Arbeit macht frei vom Toitland Europa
56
Hanoch Levin The Boy Dreams
76
Three European Productions about the French Revolution
99
Peter Brook MaratSade
102
The Individualized Crowd
170
The Execution
179
Theatrical Energies
187
Textual Energies
192
From Textual to Performative Energies
194
Performance Energies
196
The Eavesdropper and the SurvivorWitness
202
Metaphysical Energies
206

Ariane Mnouchkine 1789
111
Ingmar Bergman Madame de Sade
117
Three American Productions of Dantons Death
135
Büchners Play and Its Beholders
141
The Production Qualities
162
Epilogue
209
Notes
217
Bibliography
227
Index
236
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Freddie Rokem is a professor in the Department of Theatre Arts at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance, Strindberg’s Secret Codes, Performing History: Theatrical Representations of the Past in Contemporary Theatre (Iowa, 2000), and Theatrical Space in Ibsen, Chekhov, and Strindberg: Public Forms of Privacy.

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