IN SEARCH OF THE THEATRICAL UNIT OF MEANING: EXPLORING MNEMONIC BY SIMON MCBURNEY
IN SEARCH OF THE THEATRICAL UNIT OF MEANING: EXPLORING MNEMONIC BY SIMON MCBURNEY
Author(s): Ana BoariuSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Simon McBurney; Mnemonic; Complicite; theatre semiotics; morpheme.
Summary/Abstract: The author is searching for the theatrical unit of meaning exploring the way Simon McBurney builds up the performance in Mnemonic, a Complicite Theatre production created for the 1999 Salzburg Festival. Inspired by head-driven phrase structure grammar and Chinese pictograms, the paper looks for verbs and actions that define a matrix, where each element determines the complex theatrical sign. Any change of one single sign-element causes the meaning of the whole to change.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Dramatica
- Issue Year: 62/2017
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 221-239
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English