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- Title
Between Theater and Courtroom: Theatricality, Performativity, and Citational Practices in Milo Rau’s Die Zürcher Prozesse.
- Authors
McClelland, Richard
- Abstract
Since founding his production company The International Institute of Political Murder in 2007, Swiss-born director Milo Rau has produced critically acclaimed and award-winning theater. Rau’s dramaturgy centers on the effort to engage with the real, to uncover the hidden patterns and processes that underpin contemporary reality, and in turn to open these up to future engagement. In Die Zürcher Prozesse (2013), Rau facilitated a trial in which the Swiss weekly magazine Die Weltwoche was charged with infringing the Swiss constitution. In this analysis, I consider what implications the theatrical framework has in an event that purports to “put reality on trial”. Drawing on theories of citation proposed by John Langshaw Austin and Jacques Derrida, I examine the role of performativity in the production to demonstrate how the theatrical frame creates a rich citational interplay that destabilizes the relationship between the production and reality. In turn, this raises questions about the nature of contemporary life – an issue that lies at the heart of Rau’s dramaturgical practices.
- Subjects
AUSTIN, J. L. (John Langshaw), 1911-1960; DERRIDA, Jacques, 1930-2004; ASSASSINATION; DRAMATIC structure; JUSTICE
- Publication
Colloquia Germanica, 2023, Vol 55, Issue 1/2, p125
- ISSN
0010-1338
- Publication type
Article