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- Title
Dramaturgies of Spontaneity.
- Authors
Romanello, Filippo
- Abstract
I would like the reader to consider a performance text simply as a text for performance, as the textual element of a potential live performance rather than its literary mastercopy. Okay, all dramatic (or postdramatic) texts are texts for performance - the reader might think... and it is true... and you are reading my remark... but let's allow ourselves a shift in emphasis. Let us indulge in an experiment, let our attention drift for a moment from product to process, from narrative to form, from representation to presence... Well, what happens? What are we actually experimenting with? And why? Let me just say in this little premise that I don't feel at ease with representations: I don't feel I represent, and I don't want to be represented. Yet even my text re-presents me. Hence the struggle. Hence my literary labour, a little unaware... building a texture amidst which to hide from overrunning dictation, from "citations or recitations and orders" (Derrida 302) for actors, or directors, always ready for a context... in other words an open yet cohesive dramaturgy, able to stimulate the actors' spontaneous reactions to the text, and induce shifts in their relationship with the audience. I have provided two exemplifying extracts (from separate pieces) that you are welcome to imagine performed as you read.
- Subjects
SPONTANEITY (Personality trait); DRAMATURGICAL approach
- Publication
Platform (17510171), 2016, Vol 10, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
1751-0171
- Publication type
Article