Fragmentos aturdidos. La hibridación genérico-discursiva en 4.48 Psychosis de Sarah Kane

El presente trabajo se propone reflexionar sobre las principales problemáticas en torno a la representación de la subjetividad desplegadas en la obra de la dramaturga británica Sarah Kane a partir del análisis de su último drama, 4.48 Psychosis (1999). Con esta obra Kane lleva al extremo la búsqueda de colapsar ciertos límites para hacer de la forma y del contenido una misma cosa. La naturaleza fragmentaria del texto, la ausencia de trama o anécdota y la imposibilidad de identificar la presencia de uno o más personajes en escena, colaboran en la creación de esa atmósfera densa y ambigua que se correlaciona con el cuadro patológico del yo anticipado en el título de la pieza. Asimismo, la puesta en funcionamiento de estrategias de hibridación genérica, de apropiación, parodia y reescritura de diferentes modalidades discursivas (monólogos líricos, conversaciones entre doctor y paciente, el discurso de los cuestionarios médicos, de la psiquiatría y de las historias clínicas, citas extraídas de literatura de autoayuda o del libro bíblico del Apocalipsis, etc.) se constituye como práctica privilegiada para reflejar el descentramiento y la dispersión del sujeto y el borramiento de los límites entre realidad- ficción, sueño-vigilia, yo-otro

Fragmentos aturdidos. La hibridación genérico-discursiva en 4.48 Psychosis de Sarah Kane

El presente trabajo se propone reflexionar sobre las principales problemáticas en torno a la representación de la subjetividad desplegadas en la obra de la dramaturga británica Sarah Kane a partir del análisis de su último drama, 4.48 Psychosis (1999). Con esta obra Kane lleva al extremo la búsqueda de colapsar ciertos límites para hacer de la forma y del contenido una misma cosa. La naturaleza fragmentaria del texto, la ausencia de trama o anécdota y la imposibilidad de identificar la presencia de uno o más personajes en escena, colaboran en la creación de esa atmósfera densa y ambigua que se correlaciona con el cuadro patológico del yo anticipado en el título de la pieza. Asimismo, la puesta en funcionamiento de estrategias de hibridación genérica, de apropiación, parodia y reescritura de diferentes modalidades discursivas (monólogos líricos, conversaciones entre doctor y paciente, el discurso de los cuestionarios médicos, de la psiquiatría y de las historias clínicas, citas extraídas de literatura de autoayuda o del libro bíblico del Apocalipsis, etc.) se constituye como práctica privilegiada para reflejar el descentramiento y la dispersión del sujeto y el borramiento de los límites entre realidad- ficción, sueño-vigilia, yo-otro

Los héroes han muerto : La revisión de la tragedia de Séneca en "Phaedras Love", de Sarah Kane

La literatura, como ya lo afirmaba Gérard Genette, no es nada más ni nada menos que un palimpsesto. Toda creación literaria se inscribe irremediablemente en una tradición y retoma temas o conflictos ya enunciados por otras obras anteriores. Podríamos decir que existen aspectos de la condición humana que serán revisitados una y otra vez sin caer en la repetición, que presentan aún "mucha tela por cortar" y que se resignifican en los diferentes contextos sociohistóricos en que son planteados. Los mitos griegos han sido durante siglos un material particularmente rico y explotado por diferentes autores. Es el caso del mito de Fedra, cuyo primer antecedente del que nos queda evidencia es la tragedia Hipólito de Eurípides (del siglo V a.C., de la cual existieron dos versiones pero sólo se conserva una), reescrito (siguiendo el concepto romano de aemulatio) en Fedra por el romano Séneca casi cinco siglos más tarde y del que se han producido hasta el día de hoy gran cantidad de versiones. Una de estas es la obra de Sarah Kane, Phaedra's Love. El presente trabajo es un análisis de dicha obra como ejemplo de la narrativa del teatro británico in-yer-face de finales del siglo XX. Una obra cruda que incomoda al lector espectador y echa por tierra con las instituciones, los valores enunciados y lo sagrado de las sociedades modernas

Contemporary take on deconstructed Medea : a review

THEATRE: The New Dead: Medea Material. By Heiner Muller. Stella Electrika in association with La Boite Theatre Company, Brisbane, November 19. THERE has been a lot of intensity in independent theatre in Brisbane during the past year, as companies, production houses and producers have begun building new programs and platforms to support an expansion of pathways within the local theatre ecology. Audiences have been exposed to works signalling the diversity of what Brisbane theatre makers want to see on stage, from productions of new local and international pieces to new devised works, and the results of residencies and development programs. La Boite Theatre Company closes its inaugural indie season with a work that places it at the contemporary, experimental end of the spectrum. The New Dead: Medea Material is emerging director Kat Henry's interpretation of Heiner Muller's 1981 text Despoiled Shore Medea Material Landscape with Argonauts. Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. Muller is known for his radical adaptations of historical dramas, from the Greeks to Shakespeare, and for deconstructed texts in which the characters - in this case, Medea - violently reject the familial, cultural and political roles society has laid out for them. Muller's combination of deconstructed characters, disconnected poetic language and constant references to aspects of popular culture and the Cold War politics he sought to abjure make his texts challenging to realise. The poetry entices but the density, together with the increasing distance of the Cold War politics in the texts, leaves contemporary directors with clear decisions to make about how to adapt these open texts. In The New Dead: Medea Material, Henry works with some interesting imagery and conceptual territory. Lucinda Shaw as Medea, Guy Webster as Jason and Kimie Tsukakoshi as King Creon's daughter Glauce, the woman for whom Jason forsakes his wife Medea, each reference different aspects of contemporary culture. Medea is a bitter, drunken, satin-gowned diva with bite; Jason - first seen lounging in front of the television with a beer in an image reminiscent of Sarah Kane's in-yer-face characterisation of Hippolytus in Phaedra's Love - has something of the rock star about him; and Glauce is a roller-skating, karaoke-singing, pole-dancing young temptress. The production is given a contemporary tone, dominated by Medea's twisted love and loss, rather than by any commentary on her circumstances. Its strength is the aesthetic Henry creates, supported by live electro-pop music, a band stage that stands as a metaphor for Jason's sea voyage, and multimedia that inserts images of the story unfolding beyond these characters' speeches as sorts of subconscious flashes. While Tsukakoshi is engaging throughout, there are moments when Shaw and Webster's performances - particularly in the songs - are diminished by a lack of clarity. The result is a piece that, while slightly lacking in its realisation at times, undoubtedly flags Henry's facility as an emerging director and what she wants to bring to the Brisbane theatre scene.

It ain't over 'til...?

This article looks at the phenomenology of the curtain call and the iimpact of its absence, in relation to two performances - pvi's tts; australia, and Brink Productions' 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane.

Caille-moi ; suivi de La violence du langage comme modalité de négociation avec le réel dans la pièce Rouge gueule d’Étienne Lepage

Par la nature double de sa réflexion, le présent mémoire propose d'interroger, au théâtre contemporain, la violence dans le langage comme modalité de négociation avec le réel. D'abord par une fiction au dispositif épuré et à la langue poétique, la pièce de théâtre Caille-moi, puis par un essai sur la pièce de théâtre Rouge gueule d'Étienne Lepage, nous désirons mettre en lumière un langage désubjectivé (Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari, Pierre Ouellet) au cœur duquel la présence de l'altérité remplace une certaine aliénation. Inscrivant notre démarche à la croisée des études littéraires et théâtrales, à la suite des travaux de Marion Chénetier-Alev sur l'oralité au théâtre, nous exposons à la fois la violence faite au dispositif théâtral et aux lecteurs-spectateurs dans l'espace du théâtre rendu possible par la violence du langage. Notre réflexion se pose également dans une visée plus large, interrogeant l'inscription du théâtre in-yer-face britannique (Sarah Kane) et de ses répercussions dans le théâtre québécois contemporain, en soulignant la connaissance de la dramaturgie québécoise dont fait preuve la pièce. En ce sens, le langage inventé par le jeune dramaturge offre le contrepoint à un certain cynisme contemporain et impose un langage riche et conscient de son histoire.

The Politics of Re-(en)visioning: Contemporary British Rewritings of Greek and Roman Tragedies

This thesis examines three different kinds of socio-political rewritings of Greek and Roman tragedies – Sarah Kane’s “Phaedra’s Love”, Tony Harrison’s “Prometheus”, and Martin Crimp’s “Cruel and Tender” – written, staged or screened in Britain (and, more precisely, England) between 1996 and 2004. Offering close readings of these re-visionary appropriations, this dissertation analyses some of the innumerable and unexpected forms that ancient tragedy can assume today. In particular, it explores how three talented British authors have subverted the conventions of the noblest literary and dramatic genre in order to (re)write contemporaneity in ways that oscillate between the personal and the public, the local and the global, the national and the transnational.

Impact et résonances du théâtre In-yer-face au Québec : Shopping and Fucking de Mark Ravenhill (adaptation de Christian Lapointe), Faire des enfants d’Éric Noël et En dessous de vos corps je trouverai ce qui est immense et qui ne s’arrête pas de Steve Gagnon.

Le présent mémoire porte sur la présence de la violence et de la sexualité sur la scène théâtrale québécoise, ainsi que sur l’influence du mouvement britannique In-yer-face sur la dramaturgie québécoise contemporaine. Par l’étude comparative des didascalies des textes ainsi que des mises en scènes de trois productions québécoises – soit Shopping and F**king (texte de Mark Ravenhill traduit par Alexandre Lefebvre, mise en scène de Christian Lapointe), Faire des enfants (texte d’Éric Noël, mise en scène de Gaétan Paré) et En dessous de vos corps je trouverai ce qui est immense et qui ne s’arrête pas (texte et mise en scène de Steve Gagnon) –, ce mémoire explore les diverses manières de représenter la violence et la sexualité sur la scène québécoise actuelle. Ce travail dépasse l’étude textuelle, il présente une réflexion sur le théâtre québécois et les nombreuses contraintes auxquelles les artistes doivent faire face lorsqu’ils veulent présenter un spectacle de théâtre comportant des scènes de violence et de sexualité au Québec.

Impact et résonances du théâtre In-yer-face au Québec : Shopping and Fucking de Mark Ravenhill (adaptation de Christian Lapointe), Faire des enfants d’Éric Noël et En dessous de vos corps je trouverai ce qui est immense et qui ne s’arrête pas de Steve Gagnon

Le présent mémoire porte sur la présence de la violence et de la sexualité sur la scène théâtrale québécoise, ainsi que sur l’influence du mouvement britannique In-yer-face sur la dramaturgie québécoise contemporaine. Par l’étude comparative des didascalies des textes ainsi que des mises en scènes de trois productions québécoises – soit Shopping and F**king (texte de Mark Ravenhill traduit par Alexandre Lefebvre, mise en scène de Christian Lapointe), Faire des enfants (texte d’Éric Noël, mise en scène de Gaétan Paré) et En dessous de vos corps je trouverai ce qui est immense et qui ne s’arrête pas (texte et mise en scène de Steve Gagnon) –, ce mémoire explore les diverses manières de représenter la violence et la sexualité sur la scène québécoise actuelle. Ce travail dépasse l’étude textuelle, il présente une réflexion sur le théâtre québécois et les nombreuses contraintes auxquelles les artistes doivent faire face lorsqu’ils veulent présenter un spectacle de théâtre comportant des scènes de violence et de sexualité au Québec.

Pleasure Consuming Medicine : The Queer Politics of Drugs By Kane Race [Review]

The queer studies field works to deconstruct dominant western discourses which cast gay men as hedonistic partygoers. Concurrently it examines the real social ramifications for some gay men for whom partying, illegal drugs and casual sex is an everyday reality. Another reality of gay male culture is HIV/AIDS and the legal prescribed medicines which accompany these conditions. Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs explores these realities and the discourses surrounding them. Exploring the embodiments of illegal and prescription drug users, this book problematises the binary between prescription medicine use, where drug use is configured as a matter of consumer choice, and 'illicit' drug use which is heavily policed and condemned. Returning to the gay community it reviews community approaches to safe sex and drug use, and individual practices, to demonstrate alternative approaches to condemning drug usage.

Pleasure Consuming Medicine : The Queer Politics of Drugs By Kane Race [Review]

The queer studies field works to deconstruct dominant western discourses which cast gay men as hedonistic partygoers. Concurrently it examines the real social ramifications for some gay men for whom partying, illegal drugs and casual sex is an everyday reality. Another reality of gay male culture is HIV/AIDS and the legal prescribed medicines which accompany these conditions. Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs explores these realities and the discourses surrounding them. Exploring the embodiments of illegal and prescription drug users, this book problematises the binary between prescription medicine use, where drug use is configured as a matter of consumer choice, and 'illicit' drug use which is heavily policed and condemned. Returning to the gay community it reviews community approaches to safe sex and drug use, and individual practices, to demonstrate alternative approaches to condemning drug usage.

The national railway of Sarah Island : Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish

In the latter half of the nineteenth century the railway became an emblem of technological advancement, stood for the improvement and progression of European life, and became a recognizable symbol for the achievements of governments and citizens. The implementation and use of the railway became closely linked with notions of national identity and character. The railway became an identifiable artefact in official history but at the same time it became a part of everyday life. Richard Flanagan’s Gould’s Book of Fish retells the life-story of a fictionalized convict sent to Sarah Island and who paints fish, eventually he metamorphoses into one. It could be thought that a novel set in convict times would have little to do with notions of national identity, technological advancement, and railway travel. However, Richard Flanagan, in this very complex, almost surreal, novel, has used the construction of a fictional national railway as one of the ways to explore Australia's complex relationship with history and space. The novel tells of the plans of a history-loving Commandant and his desire to build a national railway on Sarah Island. This paper explores how Sarah Island becomes a metonym for Australia as a whole and Flanagan's novel takes on a metaphysical dimension as he reveals the struggles that emerge when official history collides with non-official versions. The fabulations of the novel contribute to an historical reconstruction of the spatial/architectural history of the Tasmanian colonial project.

Review: "Measuring and evaluating sustainability : ethics in sustainability indexes" by Sarah E. Fredericks, New York, Routledge, Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development, 2014

The concept of ‘sustainability’ has been pushed to the forefront of policy-making and politics as the world wakes up to the impacts of climate change and the effects of the rapid urbanisation and modern urban lifestyles (Yigitcanlar and Teriman 2014). Climate change and fossil fuel-based energy policy have emerged as the biggest challenges for our planet, threatening both built and natural systems with long-term consequences. However, the threats are not limited to the impacts of climate change and unsustainable energy system only – e.g., impacts of rapid urbanisation, socioeconomic crises and governance hiccups are just to name a few (Yigitcanlar 2010a). Along with these challenges, successfully coping with the enormous transformations that our cities, societies and the environment have been going through during the last few decades, and their...