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Understanding the Dramatic Void of Forced Entertainment’s The World in Pictures

  • Journal of Modern English Drama
  • Abbr : JMBARD
  • 2013, 26(2), pp.173-195
  • Publisher : 한국현대영미드라마학회
  • Research Area : Humanities > English Language and Literature > English Literature > Contemporary English Drama

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ABSTRACT

Focusing on the dramaturgy of the theatre works of British-based theatre company Forced Entertainment, this article asks if it is possible to discover ways of looking at theatre which transcends the dichotomy between the ‘I’ and the ‘Other’ founded on the tradition of mimesis. This article proposes the aesthetics of void as an alternative frame for theatrical discussion: a notion of the void not as a vacuum but as an ever-moving, ever-changing entity; void not as a dead-end but as a process of enrichment which bridges the stage and the auditorium, the world of illusion and the world of reality, the experience of the performer and the experience of the spectator. In this paper I will investigate the validity of the aesthetic notion of the void as an alternative frame and explore how the deployment this notion may lead to another level of spectatorship, and how through this one may understand differently or negotiate the relationship between theatrical representation and the idea of the present.

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