A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Agnosticism, Metafiction, Gestus
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Realism, naturalism, epic theatre, theatre of cruelty, theatre of the absurd, post modernity (performance art) Reading for lesson = lennard and luckhurst + antonin artaud. > no such thing as a de-politicised work + all theatre is political (everything is done with meaning and purpose - not inherently political but will have politics to it) - the politics can be subconscious. > people always have an opinion on something and that will always affect and influence their work. > all theatre is commenting on something and is trying to impact and change people"s perspective. > everyone is affected by politics (those below are affected by the choices of those above) > relates to realism, (ibsenite) naturalism, darwinism/psychological realism and epic/brechtian theatre. > all plays are implicitly political by virtue of the subject-matter, from, and linguistic register they contain. > the audience and location of the play can impact its political meaning.
