Fascination of the Enormous. Utopian Constructions on the XXIst Century’s Stage
Fascination of the Enormous. Utopian Constructions on the XXIst Century’s Stage

Summary/Abstract: If we question utopia in the theater, we will notice multiple semantic levels on which we have to discuss it: utopian spaces, utopian times, performative utopias which include idealistic messages. But certainly, the great theater visionaries aimed for shaping their ideal worlds, some of them resuming on projects and theories, others, increasingly more numerous, beneficiaries of advanced technologies, building for real their beautiful and disturbing dreams. We focused on those directors, stage mesmerizers themselves, who, together with gifted set designers, made possible for the public to see most incredible worlds (and ideas). In this context, we analyzed theater works of Fank Castorf and Tomaž Pandur. Although apparently different, in message and style of expressing, too, both of them belong to the courageous, provocative and oneiric artists’ gallery. Beyond the fascination of gigantesque, easily noticed due to the spectacular visual mark, they “fight” for a miraculous theater and for a future that will never drain creativity from the human brain.

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