Mort et répétition dans le théâtre européen contemporain: La Reprise. Histoire(s) du Théâtre de Milo Rau
Death and Repetition in the European Contemporary Theatre: The Repetition. History/ ies of Theatre by Milo Rau

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to examine an archeology of violence in the contemporary theatre with particular reference to the production of Milo Rau, The Repetition. History/ies of Theatre (1). While the species of tragedy was dominated by the notion of destiny, contemporary theatre depicts the tragedy of life of the individual who is constrained to deal with a new form of tragic resulting from the crossing between the political, the historical and the ideological spheres. Within this framework, the contemporary theatre director represents the theoretical-authoritarian conscience of the performance. Reshaping the contemporary theatre and staging violence, Rau creates a conjectural tragedy by portraying not only the violence, but also the pain, the threat of danger or the terror felt by the character/ the actor – it is the Lacanian Real that repeats itself and produces the trauma. In this context, the character/ the actor dies with each performance and the viewer witnesses something that no one has ever seen, the unrepresentable event of death.

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