TEATRUL DISTOPIC
DYSTOPIC THEATRE
Author(s): Diana VasileSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Universitatea de Teatru si Film »I.L. Caragiale« (UNATC)
Keywords: dystopia; theatre; governmental society;
Summary/Abstract: Dystopias are often found as literary genre in novels (Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell, Brave New World – Aldous Huxley) and as cinematic genre in films (Matrix – Wachowski brothers, Blade Runner – Ridley Scott). This genre has not yet been theorized, although it exists both in dramatic texts and in performances. There are discussions instead about cyberdrama, which according to Janet H. Murray 1, is „a reinvention of the story itself for the new digital media”2 and about high-tech or virtual theatre. Dystopian worlds exist in the theatre, but they are in an incipient, unshaped and unexploited form (latent dystopias).
Journal: Concept
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 184-190
- Page Count: 7
- Language: Romanian