Relations with/to the Text: Four Plays on the Move

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Kerstin Schmidt
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The Caribbean philosopher and poet Édouard Glissant is not known for his work on theater; rather, he has been influential for a postcolonial reconceptualization of Caribbean spaces and the ways in which they are intertwined with a history of colonization. His theory of relation has been paramount for a rethinking of a concept of connection, theorizing the layered, complex, and often surprising relations between peoples and cultures that have shaped, questioned, imagined, and often also jumbled up the Caribbean as a world in transformation. Glissant views relation as a skein of networks and not as essentialist recovery of an authentic and true point of origin. This article addresses the theoretical transformative possibilities that this approach helps elucidate. I will mainly focus on the production of Simon Stephens’s 2012 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, an inventive adaptation of Mark Haddon’s 2003 novel that was staged in New York City between 2014 and 2016 to much critical acclaim. Finally, in a comparative approach, I would like to read this production with an eye towards Susanne Kennedy’s 2018 adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’s novel The Virgin Suicides (1993) for the Munich Kammerspiele and acclaimed Australian theater director Simon Stone’s 2016 rewrite of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters (1901) for the theater in Basel as well as Ulrich Rasche’s inventive 2017 production of Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck.
与文本的关系:移动中的四个剧本
加勒比哲学家和诗人Édouard格利桑特并不以他的戏剧作品而闻名;相反,他对加勒比空间的后殖民重新概念化及其与殖民历史交织在一起的方式产生了影响。他的关系理论对于重新思考联系的概念至关重要,将不同民族和文化之间的分层、复杂和经常令人惊讶的关系理论化,这些关系塑造、质疑、想象,并经常使加勒比海成为一个转型中的世界。Glissant将关系看作是一串网络,而不是对真实原点的本质主义恢复。本文讨论了这种方法有助于阐明的理论变革可能性。我将主要关注西蒙·斯蒂芬斯(Simon Stephens) 2012年的《深夜狗的离奇事件》(the Curious Incident of the Dog in the night time)的制作,这是一部改编自马克·哈登(Mark Haddon) 2003年的小说的创造性作品,于2014年至2016年在纽约上演,广受好评。最后,以比较的方式,我想看看苏珊娜·肯尼迪2018年为慕尼黑Kammerspiele改编的杰弗里·尤金尼德斯的小说《处女自杀》(1993),备受赞誉的澳大利亚戏剧导演西蒙·斯通2016年为巴塞尔剧院改写的安东·契诃夫的《三姐妹》(1901),以及乌尔里希·拉什2017年创作的乔治·比奇纳尔的《Woyzeck》。
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