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Subversive Stages
Ileana Alexandra Orlich
其他書名
Theater in Pre- and Post-Communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria
出版Central European University Press, 2017-04-30
主題Performing Arts / Theater / History & CriticismPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSocial Science / EssaysLiterary Criticism / DramaPerforming Arts / Theater / General
ISBN96338611879789633861189
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=If4OEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Exploring theater practices in communist and post-communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, this book analyzes intertextuality or "inter-theatricality" as a political strategy, designed to criticize contemporary political conditions while at the same time trying to circumvent censorship. Plays by Romanian, Hungarian and Bulgarian dramatists are examined, who are "retrofitting" the past by adapting the political crimes and horrifying tactics of totalitarianism to the classical theatre (with Shakespeare a favorite) to reveal the region's traumatic history. By the sustained analysis of the aesthetic devices used as political tools, Orlich makes a very strong case for the continued relevance of the theater as one of the subtlest media in the public sphere. She embeds her close readings in a thorough historical analysis and displays a profound knowledge of the political role of theater history. In the Soviet bloc the theater of the absurd, experimentation, irony, and intertextual distancing (estrangement) are not seen as mere aesthetic language games but as political strategies that use indirection to say what cannot be said directly.