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"Text and Context: Staging Sarah Kane"

The work of the enfant terrible of British theatre Sarah Kane was initially rejected by many critics who were appalled by its extreme violence that neither had a moral purpose nor happened for a rational reason. With almost no reference to social context or established conventions, Kane’s theatre deconstructs normative morality and rational action. However, regardless of the absence of proper purpose for the violence of Kane’s plays, in many adaptations the extreme cruelty of the text was interpreted as a social critique. Surprisingly enough, Kane's non-mimetic theatre, almost purified of human history, was employed to comment on human history. Focusing on some of the more recent adaptations of Kane’s work, this presentation tackles several aspects of the creative relation established between the play and the performance, and the text and its context. How does the play interrelate with different social contexts of the performance? How do we define the role of director as author of the performance? Making use of Derrida’s ideas on the text and author, elaborated for example in his “Signature Event Context”, this presentation focuses on the intricacies of the relation between the playwright, the director, the play and the performance.

Sarah Kane; violence; Jacques Derrida; performing the human

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