Postdramatic Theatre and the Political: International Perspectives on Contemporary Performance

Introduction (Jerome Carroll (University of Nottingham, UK; Steve Giles, Emeritus, University of Nottingham, UK; Karen J rs-Munby, Lancaster University, UK) Performing Dialectics in an Age of Uncertainty, or: Why Post-Brechtian Does Not Mean Postdramatic (David Barnett, University of Sussex, UK) Spectres of Subjectivity: On the Fetish of Identity in (Post-)Postdramatic Choreography (Peter M Boenisch, University of Surrey, UK) Political Fictions and Fictionalisations: History as Material for Postdramatic Theatre (Mateusz Borowski, Jagiellonian University, Poland, and Malgorzata Sugiera, Jagiellonian University, Poland) Phenomenology and the Postdramatic: A Case Study of three plays by Ewald Palmetshofer (Jerome Carroll, University of Nottingham, UK) Christoph Schlingensief's 'Rocky Dutschke, '68': A reassessment of activism in theatre (Antje Dietze, University of Leipzig, Germany) Postdramatic Reality Theatre and Productive Insecurity: Destabilizing Encounters with the Unfamiliar in Theatre from Sydney and Berlin (Ulrike Garde, Macquarie University, Australia, and Meg Mumford, University of New South Wales, Australia) Parasitic Politics: Elfriede Jelinek's 'Secondary Dramas' and their staging (Karen J rs-Munby, Lancaster University, UK) A future for Tragedy? Remarks on the Political and the Postdramatic (Hans-Thies Lehmann, Visiting Professor at University of Kent, UK) Acting, disabled: Back to Back Theatre and the politics of appearance (Theron Schmidt, King's College London, UK) Performing the Collective: Heiner M ller's 'Alone with these Bodies' ('Allein mit diesen Leibern) as a piece of Postdramatic Theatre (Michael Wood, University of Edinburgh, UK) Crises of Representation: Towards a Postdramatic Politics? (Brandon Woolf, University of California, USA)

Dr Jerome Carroll is lecturer in German Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. Steven Giles is Professor Emeritus of German Studies and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has contributed to Brecht on Art and Politics (Methuen Drama, 2003) as well as authoring books on Modern European Drama and Critical Theory. Dr Karen J rs-Munby is a lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Lancaster, UK. She translated and wrote a critical introduction for Hans-Thies Lehmann's Postdramatic Theatre (2006).