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- Title
Non-verbal Representation of Emotions in the Recent History of the Latvian Theatre.
- Authors
ČAKARE, VALDA
- Abstract
This article focuses on the ways in which collective emotions were staged during the years of perestroika. In the late 1980s, many theatre people in Latvia tried to formulate their protest against the political regime. A number of productions attempted to evoke feelings that had been intentionally suppressed and even erased from public memory. It was not accidental that theatrical representations of historical events or urgent political processes frequently culminated in a tableau where the gestures of the characters visually summarized the emotions and ideas of the situation rendering national sentiment in visible signs. The article tries to answer two questions: to what extent the social reality and the dominating theatrical forms of the late 1980s fostered the use of a tableau, and how concrete examples could be assessed against this background. The source materials used for analysis are photographs of theatre performances staged by Valentīns Maculēvičs - one of the leading figures of the Latvian theatre in the late 1980s.
- Subjects
LATVIA; NONVERBAL communication; THEATER; EMOTIONS; PERESTROIKA; POLITICAL doctrines; SIGN language; LANGUAGE &; languages; SOVIET Union economic policy, 1986-1991
- Publication
Nordic Theatre Studies, 2009, Vol 21, p75
- ISSN
0904-6380
- Publication type
Article