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This article reflects on Samuel Beckett’s A Piece of Monologue (1979) and Caryl Churchill’s Here We Go (2015) as plays that engage with the theme of “the dying and the going”. Both playwrights are internationally renowned for their theatrical innovation, hence this article investigates how their plays explore the propensity of old age to transgress the limitations of theatrical representation and to induce heightened awareness of the audience. Beckett’s play resembles an extended poetic image whose minimalism parallels the diminishing powers customarily associated with ageing. Yet Beckett’s minimalism redirects the focus on what almost perishes, ceases to be, and affirms Speaker’s urge to tell a story and to persist with “the one matter.” As such, the limited resources of old age are not considered as a hindrance to addressing the mystery of human existence and instead become empowered by the artistic arrangement of the text. Caryl Churchill’s Here We Go resembles a triptych and its three parts employ first dialogue, then monologue, and finally resort to silence to address our mortality. The play’s brevity and the diversity of applied aesthetic and structural solutions are matched with a script that gives the director and actors ample scope for artistic freedom and creativity. Therefore in their investigation into old age and death both playwrights escape the demands of chronology and teleological narratives and employ daring and imaginative techniques to challenge the medium they work in and to confound the conventional expectations of the theatre audience.
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The chief aim of this article is to present the main developments in ecological thought and practice that have influenced British and American theatre in the past three decades. Although eco-criticism had attracted many keen followers and public environmental awareness had grown rapidly in recent years, theatre remained silent on green issues for a long time despite its political engagement in other areas. When at last theatre turned green, its voice is powerful and inspiring. Theatre uses its collective character to foster a feeling of shared responsibility and to create space that transformsinto one of the major characters of the performance. Moreover, dystopian visions of the ecological catastrophe that brings famine and destruction presented on stage are thought-provoking and highly persuasive. Theatre interconnects artists and audiences and uses its capacity to raise environmental awareness and to bring about behaviour change. In this way, theatre is able to affect social and political change.
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Celem tego artykułu jest zarysowanie głównych nurtów działalności teatru anglojęzycznego w ciągu ostatnich trzech dekad na rzecz ochrony przyrody. Chociaż eko-krytyka zdobywała rzesze kolejnych wyznawców a świadomość zagrożeń ekologicznych obejmowała stopniowo wszystkie sfery działalności człowieka, teatr przez wiele lat nie podejmował tematów ekologicznych, mimo swojego zaangażowania politycznego w innych sprawach. Kiedy w końcu teatr zabarwił się na zielono, jego głos w tej sprawie jest zdecydowany i inspirujący. Wykorzystał on wspólnotowy charakterteatru do tworzenia przestrzeni, która jest jednym z głównych bohaterów przedstawienie a dystopijne wizje katastrof ekologicznych niosących głód i zagładęmają ogromną siłę rażenia. W ten sposób działalność artystyczna aktywnie kreuje świadomość ekologiczną swoich odbiorców a teatr nabiera społecznej i politycznej sprawczości.
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