‘The very cunning of the scene’: notes towards a common dispositive for theatre and philosophy

Autores

  • Freddie Rokem Tel Aviv University & University of Chicago

Palavras-chave:

Eavesdropping, Dispositive, Metatheatre, Philosophy of Drama, Performance Philosophy

Resumo

The article suggests that eavesdropping scenes contain the key to a fundamental dispositive of the theatre, that reinforces the intricate metatheatrical dimensions of any performance and amplifies its philosophical aspects. In order to make this claim clear, the article discusses the idea of a dispositive, a concept broadly taken from Foucault (1980; 1986) and applies its self-reflexive dimensions to a number of examples from different plays, in order to demonstrate as those work both as scores for performances as well as texts with a philosophical character.

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Biografia do Autor

Freddie Rokem, Tel Aviv University & University of Chicago

Freddie Rokem is Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Theatre at Tel Aviv University, where he was the Dean of the Faculty of the Arts (2002-2006) and held the Emanuel Herzikowitz Chair for 19th and 20th Century Art (2006-2016). He is currently the Wiegeland Visiting Professor of Theater & Performance Studies (TAPS) at the University of Chicago.
His more recent books are Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance (2010; translated into Italian, Polish and German; to appear in Hebrew); Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre (2010, co-edited with Jeanette Malkin); Strindberg's Secret Codes (2004) and the prize-winning book Performing History: Theatrical Representations of the Past in Contemporary Theatre (2000; translated into German and Polish). He was the editor of Theatre Research International (2006-2009) and was a founding co-editor of the Palgrave/Macmillan book series 'Performance Philosophy' (2012-2017) also being among the founders of the 'Performance Philosophy'-network. He has been a visiting professor at many universities in the United States, Germany, Finland and Sweden, and is also a practicing dramaturg.

Publicado

2022-09-27

Como Citar

Rokem, F. (2022). ‘The very cunning of the scene’: notes towards a common dispositive for theatre and philosophy. Revista Brasileira De Estudos Da Presença, 10(1), 01–20. Recuperado de https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/92434

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Seção

Filosofia-Performance