Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15176/vol57no110
Postdramatic Tragedy and Fear: The Case of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio’s Tragedia Endogonidia
Una Bauer
; Academy of Dramatic Art, Zagreb
Abstract
This article engages with conceptual constellations which allow a contemporary postdramatic theatre production, specifically Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio’s theatrical series Tragedia Endogonidia (2002 – 2004) to be regarded as a tragedy or a series of tragedies. Particular emphasis is given to the role of fear in understanding Tragedia Endogonidia as a tragedy. My claim is that Tragedia Endogonidia contributed to the modification of contemporary understanding of tragedy to, at the same time, a more abstract and a more explicitly material one, where the anchoring of the tragic into a concrete human destiny and the resolution of a plot is replaced by “plotting of the sensorial” or “plotting of the image”, driven by anticipation directly related to an unspecified feeling of discomfort and fear.
Keywords
tragedy, fear, paradox, transgression, contingency
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239350
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Publication date:
19.6.2020.
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