Theatre and Event

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Adrian Kear

   Pages 1-36

3. Song of the Century: Jan Lauwers and Needcompany’s Sad Face/Happy Face Trilogy

   • Adrian Kear

   Pages 37-91

4. Naming the Event: Alvis Hermanis and Jaunais Rīgas Teātris’ Sonja

   • Adrian Kear

   Pages 92-118

5. Falling into History: Romeo Castellucci and Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio’s Tragedia Endogonidia and Divina Commedia

   • Adrian Kear

   Pages 119-149

6. Theatre in the Open: Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes’ The Persians and Coriolan/us, National Theatre Wales

   • Adrian Kear

   Pages 150-185

7. De-creating the Step of the World: Faustin Linyekula and Studios Kabako’s La création du monde 1923–2012, Pour en finir avec Bérénice, and More more more … Future

   • Adrian Kear

   Pages 186-215

8. Afterword

   • Adrian Kear

   Pages 216-221

9. Back Matter

   Pages 222-243

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In the beginning of the 21st century, European theatre-makers have sought to consider the disastrous events of the 20th century as the unfinished business of the contemporary. In this book, Kear argues that by thinking through the logic of the event, contemporary performance offers an affective interrogation of 'the event' of the European century.

• twenty-first century theatre
• contemporary theatre
• contemporary performance
• European theatre
• performance practice
• 20th century
• Europe
• history
• logic
• Song
• theatre

Adrian Kear is Professor of Theatre and Performance at Aberystwyth University, UK. His writing focuses on contemporary theatre, performance, politics and philosophy. Previous publications include International Politics and Performance (with Jenny Edkins), Psychoanalysis and Performance (with Patrick Campbell), and Mourning Diana: Nation, Culture and the Performance of Grief (with Deborah Lyn Steinberg).

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