Beschreibung
InhaltsangabeAcknowledgments 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 S~ao Paulo (1996) Part II: Renegotiating Cultural Identities 91 Chapter 4: On the Strangeness and Inaccessibility of the Past 93 The Antiquity Project at the SchaubEURuhne 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 (19782008) 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 Shizheng's The Bacchae in Beijing (1996) Epilogue 225 Name Index 231 Subject Index 236
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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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