The cornerstone of “performance theory” is the perceived obsolescence of “orthodox theater”: literary plays performed in fixed settings for a settled audience, relating stories as if they were happening to others. In the postmodern actuality, the limits of Humanism as an arrogant ideology demand a new paradigm for theater, in the academy and in practices, grounded in the notion of performance and on the interactions among its major articulations: entertainment, education, ritual and healing.
Caposaldo della “teoria della performance” è la percezione dell’obsolescenza del “teatro ortodosso”: testi letterari rappresentati in spazi rigidamente strutturati per un pubblico immobile, che raccontano storie come se accadessero ad altri. Nella attualità postmoderna i limiti dell’Umanesimo in quanto ideologia arrogante esigono un nuovo paradigma per il teatro, nell’accademia e nella pratica, fondato sulla nozione di performance e sull’interazione delle sue quattro grandi articolazioni: intrattenimento, educazione, rituale e cura.
La comunicazione teatrale postmoderna: forme, contesti e funzioni
FABRIZIO DERIU
2025-01-01
Abstract
The cornerstone of “performance theory” is the perceived obsolescence of “orthodox theater”: literary plays performed in fixed settings for a settled audience, relating stories as if they were happening to others. In the postmodern actuality, the limits of Humanism as an arrogant ideology demand a new paradigm for theater, in the academy and in practices, grounded in the notion of performance and on the interactions among its major articulations: entertainment, education, ritual and healing.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


