(Dis) Placing Classical Greek Theatre

by: Patsalidis, S. Sakellaridou, E.

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This volume represents something vital and alive; for it not only reconstructs the act of "mnemosyne", but also the act of forgetting, so that reinvention may become the stuff true historical moments are made of. How else can the staging of Greek Tragedy deconstruct-something only the theatre knows how to do effortlessly-the very scholarship that reinvents it? The richness of this volume, in scholarship, in theatre testaments, in performance reconstructions and appreciations and in challenging theoretical statements, makes it indispensable to the field. The breadth and depth of the work being produced in this field today is truly astonishing, and it is everywhere evident in these pages. Such work has never been available in the past in so much variety, and never outside highly specialized journals.

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
I. The Remake of Myth
YOKO ONIZUKA CHASE
Modern Poetics of Dionysus
THODOROS GRAMMATAS
The Voyage of Dionysus: Past and Future of the Theatrical Myth
IAKOVOS KAMBANELLIS
Life, History, Myth
KENNETH McLEISH
Orpheus - A New "Greek" Tragedy
BERNHARD REITZ
"Truth Comes from the Foundations": The Emplotment of Greek Myth in Edward Bond's "The Woman"
SARA SONCINI
Rewriting the Greeks in Contemporary British Drama: The Mctatheatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker and Tony Harrison
MALGORZATA SUGIERA
Rewriting Homer: Wyspianski's Powrot Odysa and Strauss' Ithaka
LIANA THEODORATOU
Spectres of Memory in Ritsos' Ismene: The Fourth Dimension of a Gendered Death
II. Cultural Politics
RICHARD JONES
Degradation, Defiance, Dachau, Dublin: The Troiades Adaptations of Brendan Kennelly and Aidan Carl Mathews
RHONA JUSTICE-MALLOY
A Divine Madness: Physical and Psychic Pain in Ancient Greek and Roman Tragedy
SHIMON LEVY and NURIT YAARI
The Onstage Atrocities of Hanoch Levin: Israeli Metamorphoses of Greek Tragedies
MARIANNE McDONALD
Mapping Dionysus in New Global Spaces: Multiculturalism and Ancient Greek Tragedy
JEANETTE R. MALKIN
Heiner Muller's Postmodern Rot: Medea/Jason/Berlin
SUSAN HOLLIS MERRITT
Post-Revolutionary Perspectives: Ancient Greek Drama in Prague
IOANNA ROILOU
Performances of Ancient Greek Tragedy on the Greek Stage of the Twentieth Century: An Intercultural and Sociological Approach
BARNARD TURNER
Christa Wolfs "Medea: Stimmen"
DAVE WILLIAMS
Greek Drama in Taiwan: Persistent and Prophetic Paradigms
STEVE E. WILMER
Seamus Heaney and the Tragedy of Stasis
III. Problematics of Performance
FREDDY DECREUS
"Classical" Tragedy Between Ritual and Postmodern Performances
ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE
Invocation of the Dead, Festival of Peoples' Theatre or Sacrificial Ritual? Some Remarks on Staging Greek Classics
JOHN C. GREEN
Going Back to Dionysus: The Rediscovery of Dionysian Paideia in the Contemporary Technique of Mnemodrama
PATRICK PRIMAVESI
Ritual and Formalization: Approaches to Greek Tragedy and Myth in the Work of Robert Wilson
IV. Revisionist Readings
JAMES DIGGLE
Euripides the Psychologist
THALIA PAPADOPOULOU
Subjectivity and Community in Greek Tragedy: The Example of Euripides' "Heracles"
RUTH PARKIN-GOUNELAS
Antigone and the Tragedy of Desire
JINA POLITI
If-Then: Logic at the Mercy of Tragic Irony
J. MICHAEL WALTON
Essence or Perception: Greek Drama for a New Century
V. Theoretical Perspectives
EVANGELOS KRITIKAKOS
The Paradox of Mimesis in Aristotle's Περί Ποιητικής: Between Text and Spectacle
ALDO TASSI
Impersonation and Performance
HEINER O. ZIMMERMANN
Howard Barker's Appropriation of Classical Tragedy: The Example of The Bite of the Night
VI. Gender Readings
ANNE MARIE ALLEN
Antigone: A Feminist Analysis of One Woman's Cause, and its Effects
ROB K. BAUM
Iphigenia Obscene: The (Dis)Appearance from Aulis
EKATERINI DOUKA-KABITOGLOU
Mistresses of Mimesis: Ancient (Meta)Drama and (Post)Modern Feminism
KIKI GOUNARIDOU
The Stranger of the House: Fin-de-Siede Speculations on Euripides' "Alcestis"
JENNIFER JONES
Birthing a New Woman: Franca Rame and Dario Fo's "Medea"
VII. Screen Versions
ANTHONY R. GUNERATNE
Notes for an African Oresteia: Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Challenge to Documentary
HADASSA SHANNIE
A Dream of Passion: A "Reference Book" of Adaptations from Stage to Screen
Contributors' Notes
Index

(Dis) Placing Classical Greek Theatre

by: Patsalidis, S. Sakellaridou, E.

• ISBN-13: 9789601207414 / 978-960-12-0741-4
• ISBN-03: 9601207414 / 960-12-0741-4
• University Studio Press, Thessaloniki, 2003

Price: 19,75 EURO

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