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- Title
From Political Theater in Yugoslav Socialism to Political Performance in Global Capitalism: The Case of Slovenian Mladinsko Theater.
- Authors
Juvan, Marko
- Abstract
Political theater is a trend that, during the avant-garde 1920s, emerged at the intersection of efforts to liberate artistic forms and oppressed groups in society. It was an influence on Slovenian theatrical artists at the Workers’ Stage (Delavski oder) already in the interwar period. A trend towards ‘political theater’, one of the tendencies of politicized performing arts in the period, flourished in Slovenia and other republics of the former Yugoslavia in the 1980s. Against the background of an identity crisis of the Yugoslav state and its ideology, political theater addressed great stories of History and the Revolution in a post-avant-garde manner. During the transition, political theater initially lost its edge but was reborn in the 21st century. As a post-dramatic practice associated with performance, it now parses its own politics. It is a forum for critiquing small, local stories that nonetheless evince the contradictions of a peripheral nation-state in the era of transnational late capitalism.
- Subjects
YUGOSLAVIA; POLITICAL theater; PERFORMANCE artists; CAPITALISM; SLOVENIAN art; INTERNATIONAL cooperation; POLITICAL participation; TWENTIETH century; SOCIAL policy
- Publication
European Review, 2016, Vol 24, Issue 1, p72
- ISSN
1062-7987
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1062798715000459