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Dionysus resurrected : performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a globalizing world / Erika Fischer-Lichte.
Van Pelt Library PA3973.B23 F57 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fischer-Lichte, Erika, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Euripides. Bacchae.
- Euripides.
- Greek drama--Modern presentation.
- Greek drama.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2014.
- Contents:
- Rediscovering The Bacchae
- Part I Festivals of Liberation: Celebrating Communality 25
- Chapter 1 The Birth Ritual of a New Theatre 27
- Richard Scheduler's Dionysus in 69 in New York (1968)
- Chapter 2 Celebrating a Communion Rite? 48
- Wole Soyinka's The Bacchae of Euripides at London's National Theatre (1973)
- Chapter 3 Sparagmos and Omophagia 72
- Teat(r)o Oficina's Bacantes in São Paulo (1996)
- Part II Renegotiating Cultural Identities 91
- Chapter 4 On the Strangeness and Inaccessibility of the Past 93
- The Antiquity Project at the Schaubiihne Berlin (1974)
- Chapter 5 Performing or Contaminating Greekness? 116
- Theodoros Terzopoulos' The Bacchae in Delphi (1986)
- Chapter 6 In Search of New Identities 136
- Krzysztof Warlikowski's The Bacchae in Warsaw (2001)
- Part III Productive Encounter or Destructive Clash of Cultures? 157
- Chapter 7 Dismemberment and the Quest for Wholeness 159
- Suzuki Tadashi's The Bacchae in Japan and on World Tour (1978-2008)
- Chapter 8 Transforming Kathakali 186
- The Bacchae by Guru Sadanam P. V. Balakrishnan in Delphi and New Delhi (1998)
- Chapter 9 Beijing Opera Dismembered 206
- Peter Steadman and Chen Shi-zheng's The Bacchae in Beijing (1996).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781405175784
- 1405175788
- OCLC:
- 855779227
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