Hvar City Theatre Days, Vol. 42 No. 1, 2016.
Original scientific paper
THE AUDIENCE’S VACATION FROM HISTORY
Višnja Rogošić
; Faculty of philosophy in Zagreb, University of Zagreb
Abstract
The paper analyses the first part of the theatre trilogy „Process City“ named „Process City: Vacation from History” (2008) which is devised by the performance platform Shadow Casters. The analysis is conducted from the point of view of the receptive process. The performance brings a series of procedures such as placing the visitors in beds, as well as reducing the visibility and audibility of the presented material with the aim to weaken the visitors' focus or to potentially put them to sleep. The performance is partially individualised while the authorship is shared with the visitors which should help them to distance themselves from the informative density of the everyday, revise their own value criteria and focus on their personal history. In order to achieve that aim „Vacation from History“ uses the mechanism of the dream shaping also the dramaturgy of the performance in accordance with it.
Keywords
Process City: Vacation from History; Shadow Casters; performance in the dark; audience participation; sleeping; dreaming
Hrčak ID:
158186
URI
Publication date:
9.5.2016.
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