Contemporary Animation Theater: Devising Method and Audience’s Role in a Performance Cover Image

Rolul spectatorului în creația colectivă a spectacolului de teatru de animație contemporan
Contemporary Animation Theater: Devising Method and Audience’s Role in a Performance

Author(s): Beatrice Cozmolici
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: UArtPress - Editura Universității de Arte din Tîrgu Mureş - A Marosvásárhelyi Művészeti Egyetem Kiadója
Keywords: animation theatre; puppetry; audience's role; devising theatre; performance;

Summary/Abstract: With Brecht emerges epic theatre, which means a review of theatre’s functions and mechanisms, towards creating a complex picture of the world through different means of expression, contributing, along with the theatre of absurd’s new avant-garde and H. Müller’s disintegration of texts, to the formation of a new aesthetic. The idea of ‘Character’ disappears and the concept of ‘Performer’ takes place, which is rather a vehicle of discourse, submitted to the dynamic elements; the actor is part of a collective process, in a constant connection with the audience. The relationship drama theatre-puppet theatre becomes stronger, more powerful in mutual influences. Animation Theatre is based both on visual and collective components; pure psychology studies concerning the elements with great impact on communication can be supported by the animation theatre performance-audience relationship, as well; the audience, by ‘receiving’ and accepting scenic space as a space of reality he’s being part of, wherein the action has no other time of existence than the present moment, wherein the actor is not a character but a partner that addresses to his physical reality, the audience is exposed to strong sensory effects, wherein the theatre, from an emotion generator, becomes a personal experience.

  • Issue Year: XIX/2018
  • Issue No: 35
  • Page Range: 111-117
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian
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