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TY - JOUR
T1 - Agon, conflict and dissent
T2 - Jelinek in the Arena
AU - Juers-Munby, Karen
PY - 2014/12/18
Y1 - 2014/12/18
N2 - This article explores the directorial approaches of Einar Schleef’s radically choric staging of Elfriede Jelinek’s play Ein Sportstück at the Burgtheater (1998) and Vanda Butkovic’s English language premiere of Sports Play (Just a Must, 2012) in the context of the ancient Greek concept of the agon and the conflict between group and individual. A reworking of agon and conflict is not only central to Jelinek’s text but even more so to Schleef’s dramaturgy. This latter is read in terms of Schleef’s theory about the disappearance of the chorus from German theatre and woman from the centre of the conflict. While in terms of its content Jelinek’s play critiques society’s valorization of sportive agon and its relationship to collective violence and warfare, on the level of theatrical communication both Schleef’s and Butkovic’s stagings show that the play revives an agonistic tradition creating a public space for political dissent.
AB - This article explores the directorial approaches of Einar Schleef’s radically choric staging of Elfriede Jelinek’s play Ein Sportstück at the Burgtheater (1998) and Vanda Butkovic’s English language premiere of Sports Play (Just a Must, 2012) in the context of the ancient Greek concept of the agon and the conflict between group and individual. A reworking of agon and conflict is not only central to Jelinek’s text but even more so to Schleef’s dramaturgy. This latter is read in terms of Schleef’s theory about the disappearance of the chorus from German theatre and woman from the centre of the conflict. While in terms of its content Jelinek’s play critiques society’s valorization of sportive agon and its relationship to collective violence and warfare, on the level of theatrical communication both Schleef’s and Butkovic’s stagings show that the play revives an agonistic tradition creating a public space for political dissent.
KW - Elfriede Jelinek
KW - Einar Schleef
KW - Vanda Butkovic
KW - Just a Must
KW - dramaturgy
KW - directors theatre
KW - agon
KW - agonistic tradition
KW - public space
U2 - 10.5699/austrianstudies.22.2014.0009
DO - 10.5699/austrianstudies.22.2014.0009
M3 - Journal article
VL - 22
SP - 9
EP - 25
JO - Austrian Studies
JF - Austrian Studies
SN - 1350-7532
Y2 - 11 July 2012 through 13 July 2012
ER -