“The Many Languages of the Avant-Garde”: In conversation with Grzegorz Bral of Teatr Pieśń Kozła (Song of the Goat Theatre)

• Authors: Aleksandra Sakowska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

How to theorise and review avant-garde Shakespeare? Which theoretical paradigms should be applied when Shakespearean productions are multicultural and yet come from a specific locale? These and other many questions interrogating the language of performance in global avant-garde Shakespeare productions are put forward to Grzegorz Bral, the director of the Song of the Goat ensemble in the context of their evolving performance of Macbeth (2006/2008) and their Songs of Lear (2012).

Keywords

EN

avant-garde theatre; intercultural theatre; Jerzy Grotowski; Gardzienice; globalisation; the global versus the local; post-colonialism; Western culture; montage; post-dramatic theatre; utopian primitivism; intertextuality; text; adaptation

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 26
• Pages: 45-63

Dates

published

2014-12-30

Contributors

author

Aleksandra Sakowska

• London Shakespeare Centre, King’s College London

References

• Trueman, Matt. “Review of Macbeth”. Web. 20 March 2014. http://matttrueman.co.uk/2010/11/review-macbeth-barbican-pit.html.
• Billington, Michael. “Review of Macbeth.” Web. 20 March 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/nov/04/macbeth-review.
• Linnemann, Emily. “Shakespeare as Cultural Intercultural Catalyst.” Shakespeare Survey 62 (2011): 13-24.

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/mstap-2014-0005