POSTDRAMATIC TRAGEDY AND FEAR: THE CASE OF SOCÌETAS RAFFAELLO SANZIO’S TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA
POSTDRAMATIC TRAGEDY AND FEAR: THE CASE OF SOCÌETAS RAFFAELLO SANZIO’S TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA
Author(s): Una BauerSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Aesthetics, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), History of Art
Published by: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku
Keywords: tragedy; fear; paradox; transgression; contingency;
Summary/Abstract: This article engages with conceptual constellations which allow a contemporary postdramatic theatre production, specifically Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio’s theatrical series Tragedia Endogonidia (2002 – 2004) to be regarded as a tragedy or a series of tragedies. Particular emphasis is given to the role of fear in understanding Tragedia Endogonidia as a tragedy. My claim is that Tragedia Endogonidia contributed to the modification of contemporary understanding of tragedy to, at the same time, a more abstract and a more explicitly material one, where the anchoring of the tragic into a concrete human destiny and the resolution of a plot is replaced by “plotting of the sensorial” or “plotting of the image”, driven by anticipation directly related to an unspecified feeling of discomfort and fear.
Journal: Narodna umjetnost - Hrvatski časopis za etnologiju i folkloristiku
- Issue Year: 57/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 217-234
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English