Текст – представление
Text-Performance

Summary/Abstract: Ubersfeld begins her book “Reading theatre” by refuting the view of performance as the simple ‘translation’ of a dramatic text, and outlines a much more complex dynamic. She writes about paradoxical nature of theatre, which is both eternal (indefinitely reproducible) and of the instant (never reproduced identically). The first chapter examines the relation text-performance through linguistic and semiotic perspective. The author considers different approaches concerning this relation – assigning privileged status to the text, diminishing its role or its radical rejection; she speaks about risks that lie in refusal to distinguish the domain of the text and the domain of the performance. In this chapter the author starts examining the basic elements of theatrical text and performance, traces out the questions of theatrical sign and communication process in terms of theatrical activity and scrutinizes the phenomenon of denial and theatricalization. She shows how such formal analysis can enrich the work of theatre practitioners, offering a fruitful reading of the symbolic structures of stage space and time.

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