@article{ART002339502},
author={Yeoniee Cho},
title={“I Remember You Lying Dead”: A Metatheatrical Reading of Harold Pinter’s Old Times},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2018},
volume={31},
number={1},
pages={147-175}
TY - JOUR
AU - Yeoniee Cho
TI - “I Remember You Lying Dead”: A Metatheatrical Reading of Harold Pinter’s Old Times
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2018
VL - 31
IS - 1
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 147
EP - 175
SN - 1226-3397
AB - This essay investigates what is “theatrical” about Old Times, Pinter’s representative memory play, which has been hailed by many critics for its filmic experiments. At the center of these filmic readings lies the problematic presence of Anna in the opening scene and Kate’s flashback sequences. Critics have so far tried to explain Anna’s “dumb,” “untimely” presence on stage before her arrival on the narrative plane as Pinter’s filmic adaptation for convenient switching of scenes which proves his ease in “moving between the media” (Gale 89). Without falling short of proving the dexterity of the medium, however, Anna’s seeming “inelegant” existence in the opening serves to redefine/reaffirm theatricality. Rather than being confined to the closed economy of the filmic/the dramatic, Anna’s existence straddles both the fictional and the literal, the present and the past, and the live and the virtual, foregrounding theatre as a space where what is present and what pretends to be present blend together. Kate’s performative remembering in her flashback sequences operates in a metatheatrical sensibility, rendering the present as a theatre in which the alterity of the past is realized and materialized. By conflating the representation of the past onto the present performance, Anna’s theatre-in-theatre foregrounds a discontinuity between the past and the present and disrupts the presumably coherent narrative imposed by Deeley. Mobilizing the frictions and tensions between differing levels and planes, Anna’s body in the opening and Kate’s performative remembering in the flashback sequence serve to work out a theatre as a space of alterity.
KW - Old Times;Intermediality;Theatricality;Metatheatre;Memory Theatre;Michael Fried;Josette Féral
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Yeoniee Cho. (2018). “I Remember You Lying Dead”: A Metatheatrical Reading of Harold Pinter’s Old Times. Journal of Modern English Drama, 31(1), 147-175.
Yeoniee Cho. 2018, "“I Remember You Lying Dead”: A Metatheatrical Reading of Harold Pinter’s Old Times", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.31, no.1 pp.147-175.
Yeoniee Cho "“I Remember You Lying Dead”: A Metatheatrical Reading of Harold Pinter’s Old Times" Journal of Modern English Drama 31.1 pp.147-175 (2018) : 147.
Yeoniee Cho. “I Remember You Lying Dead”: A Metatheatrical Reading of Harold Pinter’s Old Times. 2018; 31(1), 147-175.
Yeoniee Cho. "“I Remember You Lying Dead”: A Metatheatrical Reading of Harold Pinter’s Old Times" Journal of Modern English Drama 31, no.1 (2018) : 147-175.
Yeoniee Cho. “I Remember You Lying Dead”: A Metatheatrical Reading of Harold Pinter’s Old Times. Journal of Modern English Drama, 31(1), 147-175.
Yeoniee Cho. “I Remember You Lying Dead”: A Metatheatrical Reading of Harold Pinter’s Old Times. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2018; 31(1) 147-175.
Yeoniee Cho. “I Remember You Lying Dead”: A Metatheatrical Reading of Harold Pinter’s Old Times. 2018; 31(1), 147-175.
Yeoniee Cho. "“I Remember You Lying Dead”: A Metatheatrical Reading of Harold Pinter’s Old Times" Journal of Modern English Drama 31, no.1 (2018) : 147-175.
