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Theatre of Potentiality. Communicability and the Political in Contemporary Performance Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2004

NIKOLAS MÜLLER-SCHÖLL
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Abstract

Much contemporary experimental theatre and many performance practitioners in Germany and Austria share an interest in what one might call the material conditions or the medium of their performances. The article discusses different examples where the sharing of space, language and time in performance and thereby the ‘communicability’ (W. Benjamin) of communication is explored. Directors and writers discussed include H.J. Kapp, W. Golonka, L. Chetouane, R. Pollesch, C. Bosse, J. Szeiler. It is argued that in these cases theatre is done in a political way, because it allows the experience of alterity and opens up a space of potentiality.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , March 2004 , pp. 42 - 56
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© International Federation for Theatre Research 2004

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Footnotes

A preliminary version of a part of this text was given as a lecture at the Fundação Galouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, on 20 July 2002. I would like to thank Fui Lee Luk for her help in editing the text for this written version.