POPULISM ON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE

• Authors: Hamon-Siréjols Christine
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

If the choice of plays such as Ubu Roi or Macbeth was not rare in productions denouncing dictatorship in Latin America or in some communist countries during the seventies and eighties of the 20th century, we can notice that during the last five years several classical texts have been chosen through Europe to speak about religious pressure and political hypocrisy (Tartuffe) or populist tendencies (Coriolanus). Some of them were theatre plays, some were novels (The Trial by Franz Kafka staged by Krystian Lupa), some productions strictly followed the text, and others widely adapted it (The Curse by Stanisław Wyspiański, staged by Oliver Frljić). I would like to examine a few examples of these performances and question their impact on theatre and society.

Keywords

EN

CLASSIC TEXTS; POPULISM; KAFKA FRANZ; WYSPIAŃSKI STANISŁAW

• Publisher: Institute of Theatre and Arts, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 267 – 275

Contributors

author

Hamon-Siréjols Christine

• Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle-Paris 3, LIRA 4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris, France

Identifiers

DOI

10.31577/sd-2020-0017