Magda Romanska

The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor

History and Holocaust in 'Akropolis' and 'Dead Class'

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A historical and critical analysis of the post-traumatic theatre of Grotowski and Kantor, examining the ways they represent Auschwitz in their respective pivotal works 'Akropolis' and 'Dead Class'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 679g
• ISBN-13: 9781783083213
• ISBN-10: 1783083212
• Artikelnr.: 41370340

Autorenporträt

Magda Romanska is an award-winning writer, theatre scholar and dramaturg. Educated at Stanford, Yale and Cornell, she is currently Associate Professor of Theatre and Dramaturgy at Emerson College in Boston, and a research associate at Harvard University's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Kathleen Cioffi
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
PART I: OUR AUSCHWITZ: GROTOWSKI'S "AKROPOLIS"
Chapter 1: Jerzy Grotowski: A Very Short Introduction
Chapter 2: Native Son: Grotowski in Poland
Chapter 3: Grotowski: The Polish Context
Chapter 4: Grotowski, the Messiah: Coming to America
Chapter 5: The Making of an Aura
Chapter 6: On Not Knowing Polish
Chapter 7: "In Poland: That is to Say, Nowhere"
Chapter 8: "Akropolis"/Necropolis
Chapter 9: The Vision and the Symbol
Chapter 10: "This Drama as Drama Cannot Be Staged"
Chapter 11: Two National Sacrums
Chapter 12: "Hollow Sneering Laughter": Mourning the Columbuses
Chapter 13: Against Heroics
Chapter 14: Representing the Unrepresentable
Chapter 15: Trip to the Museum
Chapter 16: Bearing the Unbearable
Chapter 17: The Living and the Dead
Chapter 18: Jacob's Burden
Chapter 19: The Final Descent
Chapter 20: Textual Transpositions
Chapter 21: "Akropolis" After Grotowski
ILLUSTRATIONS
PART II: OUR MEMORY: KANTOR'S "DEAD CLASS"
Chapter 22: Tadeusz Kantor: A Very Short Introduction
Chapter 23: "Dead Class": The Making of the Legend
Chapter 24: "Dead Class" in Poland
Chapter 25: The Polish History Lesson
Chapter 26: "Dead Class" Abroad
Chapter 27: On Not Knowing Polish, Again
Chapter 28: The Visual and the Puerile
Chapter 29: The National and the Transnational
Chapter 30: Witkiewicz's Tumor
Chapter 31: An Age of Genius: Bruno Schulz and the Return to Childhood
Chapter 32: Conversing with Gombrowicz: The Dead, the Funny, the Sacred and the Profane
Chapter 33: Panirony: "A pain with a smile and a shrug"
Chapter 34: Raising the Dead
Chapter 35: "Dead Class" as Kaddish...
Chapter 36: "Dead Class" as "Dybbuk," or the Absence
Chapter 37: The Dead and the Marionettes
Chapter 38: Men and Objects
Chapter 39: "Dead Class" as "Forefathers' Eve"
Chapter 40: "Dead Class": The Afterlife
Postscript
Appendix: Table 1. Chronology of Events
Table 2. Comparison between Wyspiäski's "Akropolis" and "Genesis"
Table 3. Comparison between Grotowski and Kantor
Notes
Bibliography
Index