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Dionysus Resurrected

Performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a Globalizing World
Blackwell-Bristol Lectures on Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition 1. Aufl.

von: Erika Fischer-Lichte
72,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley-Blackwell
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	08.11.2013
ISBN/EAN:	9781118609750
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	264

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Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence since the late 1960s of Euripides’ The Bacchae. By analyzing and contextualizing these modern day performances, the author reveals striking parallels between transformational events taking place during the era of the play’s revival and events within the play itself. <ul> <li>Puts forward a lively discussion of the parallels between transformational eventsduring the era of the play’s revival and events within the play itself</li> <li>The first comparative study to analyse and contextualize performances of The Bacchae that took place between 1968 and 2009 from the United States, Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia</li> <li>Argues that presentations of the play not only represent liminal states but also transfer the spectators into such states</li> <li>Contends that the play’s reflection on various stages of globalization render the tragedy a contemporary play</li> <li>Establishes the importance of The Bacchae within Euripides’ work as the only extant tragedy in which the god Dionysus himself appears, not just as a character but as the protagonist</li> </ul>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii Preface ix Introduction 1 –Rediscovering The Bacchae – Part I: Festivals of Liberation: Celebrating Communality 25 Chapter 1: The Birth Ritual of a New Theatre 27 – Richard Schechner’s Dionysus in 69 in New York (1968) – Chapter 2: Celebrating a Communion Rite? 48 – Wole Soyinka’s The Bacchae of Euripides at London’s National Theatre (1973) – Chapter 3: Sparagmos and Omophagia 72 – Teat(r)o Oficina’s Bacantes in São Paulo (1996) – Part II: Renegotiating Cultural Identities 91 Chapter 4: On the Strangeness and Inaccessibility of the Past 93 – The Antiquity Project at the Schaubühne Berlin (1974) – Chapter 5: Performing or Contaminating Greekness? 116 – Theodoros Terzopoulos’ The Bacchae in Delphi (1986) – Chapter 6: In Search of New Identities 136 – Krzysztof Warlikowski’s The Bacchae in Warsaw (2001) – Part III: Productive Encounter or Destructive Clash of Cultures? 157 Chapter 7: Dismemberment and the Quest for Wholeness 159 – Suzuki Tadashi’s The Bacchae in Japan and on World Tour (1978–2008) – Chapter 8: Transforming Kathakali 186 – The Bacchae by Guru Sadanam P. V. Balakrishnan in Delphi and New Delhi (1998) – Chapter 9: Beijing Opera Dismembered 206 – Peter Steadman and Chen Shi-zheng’s The Bacchae in Beijing (1996) – Epilogue 225 Name Index 231 Subject Index 236

Autorenportrait

ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE is Professor of Theatre Studies at the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft at the Freie Universität of Berlin and Director of the International research centre "Interweaving Performance cultures." She has published extensively on the history of the theatre and on the reception of Greek tragedy. Her most recent publications include Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual: Exploring Forms of Political Theatre (2005), The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics (2008), and Performance and the Politics of Space: Theatre and Topology (edited with Benjamin Wihstutz, 2012).

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Before the late 1960s, Euripides' The Bacchae had almost no performance record on modern stages. Since then, the play has been staged many times in the United States, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Drawing parallels between the elements of transition, transformation, and violence in the second half of the twentieth century and the plot of The Bacchae, Fischer-Lichte argues that the play's reflection on features identified today as consequences of globalization allowed the performance to accomplish what the ancient viewers believed Dionysus, the protagonist, brought about. In this sense, the author contends that Dionysus resurrects as the god of globalization, rendering the tragedy a contemporary play. By analyzing and contextualizing these performances worldwide, Fischer-Lichte reveals the reasons behind the resurrection of this much discussed but, until recently, rarely performed tragedy.

Unpublished endorsement

“The changing fortunes of The Bacchae, as told in this engaging book, are almost as dramatic as the play itself. Long neglected, it made an astonishing comeback in the sixties, capturing our world of cultural and religious clashes with uncanny precision. In these pages, Erika Fischer-Lichte has turned a classic into a masterwork for our time.” --Martin Puchner, Harvard University “There is only one person (Fischer-Lichte) who has the experience, the knowledge and the perspectives – theoretical, theatrical, political – to write this book. It simultaneously illumines the ancient Bacchae and the contemporary global theatre.” --Oliver Taplin, Oxford University “For the first time, performances of The Bacchae are studied from a world perspective – North, South, East and West. Fischer-Lichte's pioneering book is illuminated by her nuanced conceptions of ritual.” --Maria Shevtsova, University of London