Dionysus Resurrected
Performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a Globalizing World
Published on 13. December 2013
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-4051-7578-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
* Puts forward a lively discussion of the parallels between transformational eventsduring the era of the play's revival and events within the play itself
* 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
* Argues that presentations of the play not only represent liminal states but also transfer the spectators into such states
* Contends that the play's reflection on various stages of globalization render the tragedy a contemporary play
* 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
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
531 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-7578-4 (9781405175784)
Schweitzer Classification
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Erika Fischer-Lichte
Dionysus Resurrected
Performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a Globalizing World
E-Book
11/2013
Wiley-Blackwell
€74.99
Available for download
Erika Fischer-Lichte
Dionysus Resurrected
Performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a Globalizing World
E-Book
11/2013
Wiley-Blackwell
€74.99
Available for download
Person
Erika Fischer-Lichte is Professor of Theatre Studies at the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft at the Freie Universitaet 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).
Content
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xvii
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 (1978-2006) -
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
Index of names 00
Index of subjects 0