What to Reveal, What to Conceal. The Theatre of the Real and the Confession Under Control
What to Reveal, What to Conceal. The Theatre of the Real and the Confession Under Control
Author(s): Iulia PopoviciSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: UArtPress - Editura Universității de Arte din Tîrgu Mureş - A Marosvásárhelyi Művészeti Egyetem Kiadója
Keywords: documentary theatre; participatory theatre; realism; authenticity; true story device
Summary/Abstract: In the following paper, I will try to analyze the specific strategies used in the case of Romanian socially engaged fact-based productions in order to install the convention of reality on which the spectatorial response is based in the case of such performances, how these strategies and the convention itself can be manipulated and what kind of consequences this manipulation entails, using the example of a theatre piece which aims at questioning the fetishization of truthfulness.
Journal: SYMBOLON
- Issue Year: XVI/2015
- Issue No: 29
- Page Range: 100-106
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
