Modern Theatre’s Expansion into Reality

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  • Marvin Carlson City University of New York - CUNY

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36025/arj.v3i1.8429

Keywords:

real, post-modern, contemporary theater

Abstract

Although the tension between the real and the illusion based upon it are at the heart of the theatrical experience, in the final years of the twentieth century and the opening years of the twenty-first, many theatres in Europe and the United States became particularly interested in calling attention to the real in their work. Although Hans-Thies Lehmann in his Postmodern Theatre (2006) devotes a few pages to this phenomenon, as one type of postmodern experimentation, what he designates as “the irruption of the real” he considers only one among many types of postmodern experimentation. I will argue, on the contrary, that it constitutes a major shift in the practical and phenomenological world of theatre, and a turning away from mimesis, which has been at the heart of the theatre ever since Aristotle. 

English version by Leslie Damasceno.

 

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Marvin Carlson, City University of New York - CUNY

The Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre, Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies. His research and teaching interests include dramatic theory and Western European theatre history and dramatic literature, especially of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. He has been awarded the ATHE Career Achievement Award, the George Jean Nathan Prize, the Barnard Hewitt prize, the George Freedley Award, the Edgar Rosenblum Award, the Oscar G. Brockett Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has been a Walker-Ames Professor at the University of Washington, a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Indiana University, a Visiting Professor at the Freie Universitat of Berlin, and a Fellow of the American Theatre. In 2005 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Athens. His best-known book, Theories of the Theatre (Cornell University Press, 1993), has been translated into seven languages.  His 2001 book, The Haunted Stage won the Callaway Prize.  His newest book is the Theatres of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia with Khalid Amine (Palgrave 2011). 

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17-05-2016

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CARLSON, M. Modern Theatre’s Expansion into Reality. Art Research Journal: Revista de Pesquisa em Artes, [S. l.], v. 3, n. 1, p. 1–19, 2016. DOI: 10.36025/arj.v3i1.8429. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/artresearchjournal/article/view/8429. Acesso em: 5 jul. 2024.

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2016): Theatre in the expanded field

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Dossier: Theatre in the expanded field

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