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Redefinition of basic human values or the relativisation of evil in the contemporary European drama
Sanja Nikčević
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After decades of domination by theatre producers and the marginalisation of authors of drama in the European theatre, we see a search for a new European drama. It can be found in British representatives of the in-yer-face drama which brings on the stage the most vulgar human relationships full of violence and crude language. That drama imposed itself on the British and the European public as new, leftist and progressive. And this especially to young public, in the most part conservative and dissatisfied with life and theatre. This public was the true target of theatre producers. The author shows that here was at work the demagogy which deliberately took bad and shocking texts of younger writers (who have not as yet articulated their own reputation and dramatic feeling) in order to maintain the producers' dominant position in the theatre. Insisting on the "courage" of such texts, which represented the real image of the world in the most negative manner, they influenced the young public. They offered to these young people a world without any values, in which dominate evil and violence, not only as a merely real but also as a solely possible world.
They have systematically relativised the notions of good and evil accusing everyone who appreciated any defined values as being conservative and retrograde. The relativisation of evil became thus its absolutisation. Instead of a clear delimitation between evil and true good to which aspire the most part of young people.
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84042
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Datum izdavanja:
30.12.2004.
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