Maria Blut or On the Lost Charm of Theatricality
Maria Blut or On the Lost Charm of Theatricality

Summary/Abstract: The present article aims to observe the new formulas of theatricalization of the show, starting from an eloquent example in this regard, the Natives of Maria Blut (Die Eingeborenen von Maria Blut), an adaptation after Maria Lazar, directed by Laura Bihler. The discussion about theatricality, one that marked the middle of the 20th Century, returns increasingly relevant in the context of increasingly visible attempts at de-theatricalization, which appeared especially against the background of the unprecedented expansion of technologies on theatrical stages. Dramaturgy and story-telling, sets and costumes, chromaticism and psycho-physical organization of the stage space, the multiple role and the deep recalibrations of the theatrical convention, the mask and its force to produce a certain type of atmosphere – all these become so many major milestones in -a discussion of what theatricality was and has become.

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