Someone Is Going to Come:"The New Drama"of Jon Fosse in the Performative History of Postdramatic Theater
For a long time,acting/physical body has been regarded as the most important factor in theater.Some people still defend drama literature.However,the significant decline in the proportion of playwrights among Nobel Prize winners(compared to Pre-World War Ⅱ)shows the reality of artistic production behind the terms"performative turn"and"post-dramatic".From the end of the 18th century to the 20th century,after the western performance history experienced two generations of"literary theatre"and"post-dramatic theater",now it witnessed the new possibilities of Jon Fosse's"new drama":it is"the negation of negation"of"literary drama"and it also emphasizes the"physical body",liberating the actors and encouraging audience participation.The two performance versions in Chinese of Someone Is Going to Come(2010,2021)provides us with an embodied entrance to understand the script's characteristics,"poetic simplicity"and"specific ambiguity",which lets everyone,actors and the audience,"to take the story in on a highly personal level",and to listen to the author's"hearing"-the human body electrical process of"interpersonal interaction"and be kept together in time,in a musical community space.
post-dramatic theaterThe New Dramahuman physical electricityaudience participationNobel Prize in Literature
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