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This World Doesn't Deserve Good Theatre

Summary/Abstract: Anna R. Burzyńska, on creating a complex multicontextual portrait of the aesthetics of Frank Castorf's theatre, has taken the “bad taste” classification as a point of departure. She draws her source material and definitions from philosophical texts (by the likes of Nietzsche, Baudrillard and Adorno) as well as the oeuvre of artists associated with the theatre (including Wagner, Brecht, Kantor, Jarocki, Swinarski, Grzegorzewski and Lupa). Giving many examples from Castorf's productions and staging practices while invoking his distinctive work under the direction of Volksbühne and alluding to the well-publicised discussions on the aesthetics and role of theatre going on in Germany, she contrasts the “bad taste” classification with another related underlying principle of Castorf's productions entailing the abandonment of realism for reality.

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