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Sense All at Sea: Contemporary Theatre ‘Between’ Jon Fosse and Jean-Luc Nancy

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Title: Sense All at Sea: Contemporary Theatre ‘Between’ Jon Fosse and Jean-Luc Nancy
Authors: Robson, Mark
Source: CounterText. 10:95-115
Publisher Information: Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
Publication Year: 2024
Subject Terms: Contemporary theatre, name=General Arts and Humanities, deconstruction, sense, Jon Fosse, Jean-Luc Nancy, presence the postdramatic, presence, name=Literature and Literary Theory
Description: In this essay Mark Robson explores the works of two writers, one a philosopher and one a playwright and novelist, to think through contemporary stagings of the spatio-temporal relation ‘between’ theatre and philosophy. Bringing together Jean-Luc Nancy and Jon Fosse, Robson finds in Nancy’s notions of sense, partage, co-appearance or ‘comparution’ a way of rethinking conventional explanations of the communal and political functions of theatre that resonates with the work of Fosse but also with that of French company the Théâtre du Radeau. Metaphor and imagination – and particularly a metaphorics of water – are related to different economies of the relation between speech and silence in Fosse, Nancy, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jacques Derrida to ask: how can sense be made of the notion of staging presence in the light of deconstruction and the postdramatic?
Document Type: Article
File Description: application/pdf
Language: English
ISSN: 2056-4414
2056-4406
DOI: 10.3366/count.2024.0341
Rights: EUP TDM
Accession Number: edsair.doi.dedup.....f3e1fdaffc9000e398f20dd99e03b6a8
Database: OpenAIRE
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ISSN:20564414
20564406
DOI:10.3366/count.2024.0341