Erika Fischer-Lichte

Christel Weiler

Barbara Gronau

Ibsen’s plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies. By the time Ibsen died in 1906, his plays had already conquered the theaters of the Western world. Inviting rapturous praise as well as fierce controversy, they were performed in Europe, North America, and Australia, contributing greatly to the theater, culture, and social life of these continents. Soon after Ibsen’s death, his plays entered the stages of East Asia - Japan, China, Korea - as well as Africa and Latin America. . But while there exist countless studies on Ibsen the dramatist and the significance of his plays within different cultures written mainly by literary scholars, none of them examine the ways in which Ibsen's plays were performed, or the impact of such performances on the theater, social life, and politics of these cultures. In Global Ibsen, contributors look at the way performances of Ibsen's plays address problems typical to modern societies all over the world, including: the inferior social status of women, the decay of bourgeois family life and values, religious fundamentalism, industrial pollution and corporate cover-up, and/or the loss of and search for identity.

Performing Multiple Modernities

Global Ibsen

Germany

Jens Roselt

Das zeitgenössische Theater zeichnet sich durch eine Vielzahl von Schauspielstilen aus. Der Grenzübertritt zwischen Theater, Performance, Tanz, bildender Kunst und der Arbeit mit neuen Medien scheint alltäglich zu sein. Dieser Band nimmt eine Bestandsaufnahme der aktuellen Tendenzen vor und stellt dabei die schauspielerische Arbeit ins Zentrum der Auseinandersetzung. Schauspieler_innen - wie beispielsweise Ulrich Matthes, Lars Eidinger, Petra Hartung und Anne Tismer - geben über ihre Erfahrungen Auskunft und treten mit Wissenschaftlern und Kritikern in einen Austausch darüber, was es bedeutet, allabendlich Fiktionen und Phantasmen einen Körper und eine Stimme zu geben. Schauspielen wird so als ein Prozess der permanenten Selbst- und Neuerschaffung vor Publikum begreifbar, der die Ästhetik des Gegenwartstheaters nachhaltig prägt.

Die Bildung des Menschen in den performativen Künsten

Schauspielen heute

Torsten Jost

Dramaturgies of Interweaving explores present-day dramaturgies that interweave performance cultures in the fields of theater, performance, dance, and other arts. Merging strategies of audience engagement originating in different cultures, dramaturgies of interweaving are creative methods of theater and art-making that seek to address audiences across cultures, making them uniquely suitable for shaping people’s experiences of our entangled world. Presenting in-depth case studies from across the globe, spanning Australia, China, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, the US, and the UK, this book investigates how dramaturgies of interweaving are conceived, applied, and received today. Featuring critical analyses by scholars—as well as workshop reports and artworks by renowned artists—this book examines dramaturgies of interweaving from multiple locations and perspectives, thus revealing their distinct complexities and immense potential. Ideal for scholars, students, and practitioners of theater, performance, dramaturgy, and devising, Dramaturgies of Interweaving opens up an innovative perspective on today’s breathtaking plurality of dramaturgical practices of interweaving in theater, performance, dance, and other arts, such as curation and landscape design.

Engaging Audiences in an Entangled World

Dramaturgies of Interweaving

Christel Weiler

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