Applause, ovations, flowers, or Steiner’s restitution in the theatre Cover Image

Brawa, owacje, kwiaty, czyli steinerowska restytucja w teatrze
Applause, ovations, flowers, or Steiner’s restitution in the theatre

Author(s): Tomasz Wiśniewski
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Aesthetics, Hermeneutics, Sociology of Art
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: theatre; hermeneutics; audiencing; George Steiner; Complicité;

Summary/Abstract: In this article reactions of audience are taken into consideration in view of hermeneutic process that characterises theatre semiosis. Research material covers four performances, i.e. “1989” (dir. Katarzyna Szyngiera – Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre and Teatr im. Juliusza Słowackiego in Kraków), “Once Before I Go” (dir. Selina Cartmell – The Gate Theatre in Dublin), “Tosca” (dir. Ognian Draganoff – The National Opera in Iasi) and “Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead” (dir. Simon McBurney – Complicité). The study is of comparative character and discusses a spectrum of possible functions ascribed to the audiences’ reactions.

  • Issue Year: 340/2023
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 71-79
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish
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