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Reification and Modern Drama: an Analysis, a Critique, and a Manifesto

New theatre quarterly, 2016-08, Vol.32 (3), p.256-268 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 ;ISSN: 0266-464X ;ISSN: 1474-0613 ;EISSN: 1474-0613 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0266464X16000233

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Title:
Reification and Modern Drama: an Analysis, a Critique, and a Manifesto
Author: Urban, Eva
Subjects: 1900-1999 ; Adorno, Theodor W ; Adorno, Theodor, 1903-1969 ; Argument structure ; Brecht, Bertolt (1898-1956) ; Critical Theory ; drama ; Drama and the Theatre ; Dramatists ; Dramaturgy ; English Literature ; Erziehung nach Auschwitz ; Essays ; European literature ; Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (1729-1781) ; Manifesto ; Modern drama ; modernist drama ; Negotiation ; Political dramas ; political theater ; Political Theatre ; Politics ; Reification ; solidarity ; Theater ; Theater studies ; Theme ; Twentieth Century ; Twenty-First Century
Is Part Of: New theatre quarterly, 2016-08, Vol.32 (3), p.256-268
Description: Drawing on a close reading of Theodor Adorno's essay, ‘Education after Auschwitz’, in this article Eva Urban develops the argument that an analysis of the reification that reduces human relationships to mere business interactions has been a central concern of modern drama. The article offers an analysis of some of the ways in which this theme continues to be represented, interrogated, and challenged internationally in contemporary political plays and theatre performances across a range of genres and grounded in a variety of dramaturgical principles. It asks how drama, theatre-making, theatre-spectating, and theatre-participating can create dynamics necessary to enable a move from reified consciousness towards the development of critical autonomy and solidarity. A negotiation of the principles of critical consciousness and solidarity is problematic within economic structures that cause social, ethnic, and religious atomization and divisions. Her argument concludes with an outline for a manifesto for political drama and theatre practice to work against reification. Eva Urban is a lecturer and researcher in the English Department and an Associate of the Irish Studies Research Centre, CEI/CRBC, at the University of Rennes 2, France. She recently completed a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge and is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. The author of Community Politics and the Peace Process in Contemporary Northern Irish Drama (Peter Lang, 2011), she has also published articles in New Theatre Quarterly, Etudes Irlandaises, Caleidoscopio, and edited book collections.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0266-464X
ISSN: 1474-0613
EISSN: 1474-0613
DOI: 10.1017/S0266464X16000233
Source: ProQuest Central

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Reification and Modern Drama: an Analysis, a Critique, and a Manifesto

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 ;ISSN: 0266-464X ;ISSN: 1474-0613 ;EISSN: 1474-0613 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0266464X16000233

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