Efnisyfirlit

• Contents
• Preface to the English edition
• Introduction
• What’s in the ‘post’?
• (Post)dramatic theory ‘post’ Szondi and Hegel
• The turn to performance
• Post-1960s institutional context, memory, history and palimpsest
• Theatre and world in the age of media: are we post-postdrama?
• Postmodern and postdramatic theory
• Note on the translation and acknowledgement
• Prologue
• The stakes
• Intentions
• Trade secrets of dramatic theatre
• Caesura of the media society
• Names
• Paradigm
• Postmodern and postdramatic
• Choice of term
• Tradition and the postdramatic talent
• Drama
• Drama and theatre
• ‘Epicization’ – Peter Szondi, Roland Barthes
• The estrangement of theatre and drama
• ‘Dramatic discourse’
• Theatre after Brecht
• Suspended suspense
• ‘What a drama!’
• ‘Formalist theatre’ and imitation
• Mimesis of action
• ‘Energetic theatre’
• Drama and dialectic
• Drama, history, meaning
• Aristotle: the ideal of surveyability (synopton)
• Hegel 1: the exclusion of the real
• Hegel 2: the performance
• Prehistories
• Towards a prehistory of postdramatic theatre
• Theatre and text
• The twentieth century
• First stage: ‘pure’ and ‘impure’ drama
• Second stage: crisis of drama, theatre goes its own way(s)
• Autonomization, retheatricalization
• Third stage: ‘neo-avant-garde’
• A short look back at the historical avant-gardes
• Lyrical drama, Symbolism
• Stasis, ghosts
• Stage poetry
• Acts, actions
• Speed, numbers
• Landscape Play
• ‘Pure form’
• Expressionism
• Surrealism
• Panorama of postdramatic theatre
• Beyond dramatic action: ceremony, voices in space, landscape
• Kantor or the ceremony
• Grüber or the reverberation of the voice in space
• Wilson or the landscape
• Postdramatic theatrical signs
• Retreat of synthesis
• Dream images
• Synaesthesia
• Performance text
• 1 Parataxis/non-hierarchy
• 2 Simultaneity
• 3 Play with the density of signs
• 4 Plethora
• 5 Musicalization
• 6 Scenography, visual dramaturgy
• 7 Warmth and coldness
• 8 Physicality
• 9 ‘Concrete theatre’
• 10 Irruption of the real
• 11 Event/situation
• Examples
• 1 An evening with Jan and his friends
• 2 Narrations
• 3 Scenic poem
• 4 Between the arts
• 5 Scenic essay
• 6 ‘Cinematographic theatre’
• 7 Hypernaturalism
• 8 Cool Fun
• 9 Theatre of ‘shared’ space
• 10 Theatre solos, monologies
• 11 Choral theatre/theatre of the chorus
• 12 Theatre of heterogeneity
• Performance
• Theatre and performance
• A field in between
• The positing (Setzung) of performance
• Self-transformation
• Aggression, responsibility
• The present of performance
• Aspects
• Text
• Chora-graphy, the body-text
• Textscape, theatre of voices
• Space
• Dramatic and postdramatic space
• Time
• Postdramatic aesthetics of time
• The unity of time
• Body
• Postdramatic images of the body
• Pain, catharsis
• Media
• Media in postdramatic theatre
• Electronic images as a relief
• ‘Representability’, fate
• Epilogue
• The political
• Intercultural theatre
• Representation, measure and transgression
• Afformance art?
• Drama and society
• Theatre and the ‘Society of the Spectacle’
• Politics of perception, aesthetics of responsibility
• Aesthetics of risk
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index