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Anti-plays, the postdramatic and the poetics of genre : Stein’s circular play and ‘Abdul-Hadis circle talk
Other Title(s)
مسرح الضد و ما بعد الدراما و شعريات النوع الأدبي : قراءة في "مسرحية دائرية" لستاين و "من حديث الدائرة" لعبد الهادي
Author
Source
Arab Journal for Studies and Research
Issue
Vol. 5, Issue 5 (30 Apr. 2020), pp.124-169, 46 p.
Publisher
Arab Center for Research and Media Studies
Publication Date
2020-04-30
Country of Publication
Palestine (Gaza Strip)
No. of Pages
46
Main Subjects
Topics
Abstract EN
Traditionally and following Aristotle's postulates in the Poetics, the dramatic has been more associated with being representational as opposed to possessing epic or narrative qualities.
Interestingly, with Brecht's influence, there became a shift of interest from the dramatic to the epic.
In addition, later on the postdramatic became a term used to describe plays that move more towards the performative spectrum.
The move from the dramatic to the epic yielded to the new performative and experimental culture of the postdramatic.
Anti-theatre is the avant-garde theatre that rejects certain traditional aspects and mimesis, and is presumed in this research to mark theatre's transition towards postdramatic performances in two different cultures.
By means of a methodology informed by Literary Genre Studies and Performance Studies, this article explores two plays— or rather anti-plays— as moments whereby a type of anti-theatre was vanguard: the plays were similarly a passage or a bridge from the representational to the postdramatic; i.e..
performance-centered theatre.
That is.
anti- theatre usually happens in transitional moments; as a precursor and a bridge.
This article thus proposes a reading of A Circular Play (1920).
a modernist/cubist play, by the American playwright/novelist Gertrude Stein and Of the Circle’s Talk (Min Hadith ad- Z)a ’erah) (1994).
a postmodernist play, by the Egyptian playwright/poet £Alaa' ‘Abdul- Had!, as vanguard anti-plays that responded to a certain moment in their respective cultures.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ibrahim, Arij. 2020. Anti-plays, the postdramatic and the poetics of genre : Stein’s circular play and ‘Abdul-Hadis circle talk. Arab Journal for Studies and Research،Vol. 5, no. 5, pp.124-169.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-956460
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ibrahim, Arij. Anti-plays, the postdramatic and the poetics of genre : Stein’s circular play and ‘Abdul-Hadis circle talk. Arab Journal for Studies and Research Vol. 5, no. 5 (Apr. 2020), pp.124-169.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-956460
American Medical Association (AMA)
Ibrahim, Arij. Anti-plays, the postdramatic and the poetics of genre : Stein’s circular play and ‘Abdul-Hadis circle talk. Arab Journal for Studies and Research. 2020. Vol. 5, no. 5, pp.124-169.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-956460
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 165-169
Record ID
BIM-956460