Prospective Genealogies: Einar Schleef's Choric Theatre

Autor:	Matthias Dreyer
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Politics History Literature and Literary Theory Visual Arts and Performing Arts biology Chorus Art history Relation (history of concept) biology.organism_classification Generative grammar Genealogy Drama
Zdroj:	Theatre Research International. 34:138-145
ISSN:	1474-0672 0307-8833
DOI:	10.1017/s0307883309004477
Popis:	Since the 1980s, a growing number of performances in Europe have created new forms of choric theatre in search of altered concepts of the political. In Germany, one of its pioneers was the GDR-born director Einar Schleef (1944–2001). The article explores his oeuvre, from his first choric production Mothers (1986), a classical drama project, to his last production, Betrayed People (2000), which focused on the problem of revolution in Germany. Schleef's genealogical project reintroduced the chorus as a repressed figure that develops a spectral potentiality. Through a detailed analysis of Schleef's approach to performing history, the article examines how choric theatre initiates theatrical processes of cultural remembrance and creates a relation to the past that becomes generative of the future.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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