The New European Playwriting

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This issue of the performance art magazine Maska on its 128 pages also contains, in addition to a series of informational articles and reviews of current performances, an extensive thematic series on the phenomenon of new European Playwrighting, edited by Petra Pogorevc. On its introductory pages, Rok Vevar reflects on how the dramatics of sperm and blood actually represents a theatrical settlement of old debts. He approaches the millennium dramatics in the light of direct TV transmission of the notorious New York bang on CNN channel: “The phenomenon of the sperm and blood drama is a theatrical settlement of old debts.

The dramatic theatre convention has in the past century struck back several times with powerful defence. That is never the less logical, for the theatre in the twentieth century has been submitted to many fatal shocks: the inventions of the new media kept interfering with it, and the dramatics, literary established as late as four hundred years ago (the first literary editions of Jonson’s and Shakespeare’s plays in 1623) have in the second half of the 20th century – on the basis of Saussure’s, Wittgenstein’s and post-structuralistic research of language – suddenly omitted the use of speech (Handke, Beckett).

But one of the main characteristics of the dramatics of the last fifty years is among other that it speaks about how and even after it has ran out of words. As soon as it goes astray into the fields of communicativity, it becomes banal and moralistic, it becomes a sort of unequal rival to the “society of spectacle”, that has subjugated its millennial modus operandi. That is why the new dramatic phenomena should be read through (a bit to literal understanding) Wittgenstein’s saying that the unspeakable manifests itself, that is to say, in the context of drama history – through the radical drama experiments of Beckett and Handke.”

Journal Maska, Year XVI, št. 70–71 (summer-autumn 2001)
Editor: Petra Pogorevc

Rok Vevar
WHAM! BANG! BLASTED! & OTHER GREATEST HITS

Barbara Orel
ISKANJE IZGUBLJENE REALNOSTI: FIKCIJSKA MREŽA HIPERREALNEGA SVETA

Petra Pogorevc
RAZDEJANI IN RAZMADEŽNA: PO OBEH OSEH JEZIKA DO BOSANSKE VOJNE

Katja Praznik & Saša Goropevšek
KO NOŽI ZAREŽEJO V TREBUH JEZIKA. Intervju z Davidom Harrowerjem.

Martina Šiler
URBANI SPLEEN: BRITANSKA DRAMATIKA KRVI IN SPERME

Petra Pogorevc
TUDI JAZ NISEM TAKOJ SPREGLEDAL. Intervju z Aleksom Sierzem.

Aleš Vaupotič
GLEDALIŠČE V OBDOBJU INTEGRIRANIH MEDIJEV

Anne Ubersfeld
SODOBNO FRANCOSKO GLEDALIŠČE JE GLEDALIŠČE BESEDE

Despina Angelovska
MLADA FRANCOSKA PISAVA: DEJANJE UPORA ZOPER SVET PODOB

Frauke Meyer-Gosau
DELO! LJUBEZEN! OBUP! NOVA NEMŠKA DRAMATIKA SKUŠA OPISATI DRUŽBENE TEGOBE

Knut Owe Arnzten
MED TRADICIJO IN INVENCIJO: MLADI NORVEŠKI DRAMATIKI

Jovan Ćirilov
ŽELEZNO OBDOBJE RUSKE DRAMATIKE (odlomki)

Amelia Kraigher
NOČEM SEDETI ZA MIZO Z RUSKIMI DRAMATIKI. Intervju z Evgenijem Griškovcem.

Katarzyna Wielga
IZ PTIČJE PERSPEKTIVE V ŽABJO. MLADI POLJSKI DRAMATIKI.

Juraj Šebest
ONKRAJ PETIH ČUTOV. MLADI SLOVAŠKI DRAMATIKI

David Drozd
IRONIJA IN IGRIVOST. MLADI ČEŠKI DRAMATIKI.

Sándor L. István
ČUDEŽI IN RAZOČARANJA. MLADI MADŽARSKI DRAMATIKI

Hrvoje Ivanković
ODRAZ VRTINCA. MLADI HRVAŠKI DRAMATIKI.

Ivana Đilas
SAMONIKLI. MLADI SRBSKI DRAMATIKI.

Jelena Lužina
KRIZNA GENERACIJA. MLADI MAKEDONSKI DRAMATIKI.

Diana Koloini: SODOBNA SLOVENSKA DRAMATIKA: ODSOTNOST DIALOŠKEGA DISKURZA

MARTINA ŠILER
DO IDENTITETE SKOZI DRAMSKO FORMO. Intervju z Marinko Poštrak.

MATEJ BOGATAJ
SODOBNA SLOVENSKA DRAMATIKA: OD LITERATURE K PRAKSI

Martina Šiler
KROG BO TREBA ZAVRTETI VEČKRAT. Intervju s Samom Strelcem.

Ana Perne
NOVE UPRIZORITVE NOVE DRAMATIKE V NOVI SEZONI. DODATEK.
PREDSTAVE

Nana Milčinski
ENERGIJA VELIKE GMOTE (Kagami odsev Tanje Zgonc)

Thomas Irmer
V ODSEVU MODERNE (Faust Petra Steina)

Martina Šiler: NASPROTJA. Ob dveh predstavah Bojana Jablanovca (Lenora in Evropa).

Aleš Vaupotič
OTROK IN KONJ VS. NOVI HISTORIZEM (Rozmanov Hamlet v režiji Daria Varge in Shakespearov Othello v režiji Eduarda Milerja)

KNJIGE

Aldo Milohnić
POSTDRAMATIZEM? (Hans-Thies Lehmann: Postdramatisches Theater)

Katja Praznik
COMMUNITY THEATRE (Eugene van Erven: Community Theatre. Global Perspectives)
PREŠERNOVO GLEDALIŠČE KRANJ

Jedrt Jež, Barbara Orel: POTREBA PO GLEDALIŠČU NI NEKAJ SAMOUMEVNEGA. Pogovor z Borutom Veselkom in Marinko Poštrak.

Amelia Kraigher & Matej Bogataj: POGOVORI Z IGRALCI (Tine Oman, Vesna Jevnikar, Darja Reichman, Matjaž Višnar, Pavel Rakovec Rači, Rok Vihar, Vesna Pernarčič, Vesna Slapar)