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Theatre as Refuge

Staging the War in Ukraine at Berlin’s Schaubühne

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2024

Emily Goodling
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Abstract

Sich waffnend gegen eine See von Plagen (To Take Arms against a Sea of Troubles, 2022) premiered at Germany’s Schaubühne theatre seven months after the start of the war of aggression in Ukraine. The piece comments on the broader significance of the war within Europe, while also zooming in on the protective potentialities of theatre itself, as institution and praxis.

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Critical Acts
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TDR , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , June 2024 , pp. 151 - 159
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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