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April 23 & April 24
Segal Theatre Discussions + All Day Screenings
FREE + Open to public. First come, first served.
Join us for two evenings with German theatre researcher and author Hans-Thies Lehmann. His highly influential publication, Postdramatic Theatre (Routledge, 2006), established the modern visage of avant-garde theatre by cataloguing and defining the tendencies and stylistic traits of experimental works since the end of the 1960s. Scholars and colleagues Marvin Carlson, Elinor Fuchs, Brandon Woolf, John Jesurun, Uwe Mengel, Molly Davies, Peter Eckersall, Jonathan Kalb, Carol Martin, Melissa Wansin Wong, and Frank Hentschker will join Lehmann in discussion throughout the sessions.
Monday, April 23
Daytime screenings of excerpts from works by:
Robert Wilson The Wooster Group John Jesurun Jan Lauwers Romeo Castellucci She She Pop René Pollesch
10:00am Robert Wilson – The Civil Wars (1984) 11:00am The Wooster Group – Brace Up! (1991/2003) To You, The Birdie! ( Phèdre)(2002) 12:00pm John Jesurun – Shatterhand Massacree – Riderless Horse (1985) Black Maria (1987) 1:00pm Jan Lauwers & Needcompany: The Deer House (2008) 2:00pm Romeo Castellucci – Orestea(2015) Giulio Cesare Spared Parts (1997) 3:00pm She She Pop (with ihre Väter) – TESTAMENT (2010) 4:00pm René Pollesch – Stadt als Beute (City as Prey) (2005) 5:00pm Tadeusz Kantor – Dead Class (1975)
Evening Discussion: 6:30pmPostdramatic Theatre and the 21 Century Hans-Thies Lehmann
7:00pmNew Forms of Theatre – Conversation I Uwe Mengel, John Jesurun, Molly Davies & Hans-Thies Lehmann
7:20pmPerformance in the Age of Performance – Conversation II Bertie Ferdman, André Lepecki & Hans-Thies Lehmann
7:40pmDramaturgy and Asian Theatres – Conversation III Peter Eckersall, Melissa Wansin Wong & Hans-Thies Lehmann
Tuesday, April 24
Daytime screenings of excerpts from works by:
Tadeusz Kantor Théatre du Soleil/Ariane Mnouchkine Klaus Michael Grüber Einar Schleef Angelus Novus Jan Fabre andcompany&Co
11:00am Ariane Mnouchkine/Théatre du Soleil – 1789(1970) Henri IV (1982) 12:00pm Klaus Michael Grüber – Die Bakchen (The Bacchae) (1974) 1:00pm Einar Schleef – Faust(1990) Ein Sportstuck (by Elfriede Jelinek, 1998) 2:00pm Jan Fabre/Troubleyn – The Power of Theatrical Madness (1986, revived 2012) Mount Olympus (2016) 3:00pm andcompany & Co. – Colonial Digital: The Empire Feeds Back!(2018) 4:00pm Rimini Protokoll – Wallenstein (2005) Prometheus in Athens (2010) 5:00pm Gob Squad – Western Society (2013)
7:00pmOn Writing – Conversation I Elinor Fuchs, Jonathan Kalb & Hans-Thies Lehmann
7:20pmTheater of the Real – Conversation II Marvin Carlson, Carol Martin & Hans-Thies Lehmann
7:40pmGerman Theatre and the Giessen Institut – Conversation III Brandon Woolf, Frank Hentschker & Hans-Thies Lehmann
Special thanks to Richard Schechner and Yale University’s Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures (Katrin Trüstedt and Christian Kirchmeier).
Hans-Thies Lehmann is a professor emeritus for Theatre, Film, and Media Studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main from 1988 until he was given emeritus status. His publications include Bertolt Brecht’s Hauspostille–Text und kollektives Lesen (1978, with Helmut Lethen); Theater und Mythos. Die Konstitution des Subjekts im Diskurs der antiken Tragödie (1991); Postdramatisches Theater (1999, now a standard work and translated into 26 languages); Heiner Müller Handbuch (ed. with Patrick Primavesi, 2003); and Tragödie und dramatisches Theater (Routledge, 2013). Hans-Thies Lehmann first studied general and comparative literary studies in Berlin and studied for his doctorate with Peter Szondi until his death. After gaining his doctorate, he was a visiting professor at the Universiteit van Amsterdam from 1979 to 1982. From 1983 to 1988, he was a university assistant at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen, where he substantially contributed to establishing and shaping the course of study with colleague Andzej Wirth. As a university professor for theatre studies at the J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main he made a remarkable contribution in devising theatre, film, and music studies courses, as well as establishing a course on dramaturgy in the framework of the Hessische Theaterakademie. In addition to guest professorships in Paris (France), Kaunas (Lithuania), Kraków (Poland), and Virginia (USA), Lehmann also works as a dramaturg for Jossi Wieler, Peter Palitzsch, Christof Nel, Theodoros Terzopoulos, Jan Fabre, and produces his own stage projects. He is on the board of the Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft and a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Hans-Thies Lehmann lives in Berlin with theatre critic Helen Varopoulou.
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April 23 & April 24
Segal Theatre
Discussions + All Day Screenings
FREE + Open to public. First come, first served.
Join us for two evenings with German theatre researcher and author Hans-Thies Lehmann. His highly influential publication, Postdramatic Theatre (Routledge, 2006), established the modern visage of avant-garde theatre by cataloguing and defining the tendencies and stylistic traits of experimental works since the end of the 1960s. Scholars and colleagues Marvin Carlson, Elinor Fuchs, Brandon Woolf, John Jesurun, Uwe Mengel, Molly Davies, Peter Eckersall, Jonathan Kalb, Carol Martin, Melissa Wansin Wong, and Frank Hentschker will join Lehmann in discussion throughout the sessions.
Monday, April 23
Daytime screenings of excerpts from works by:
Robert Wilson
The Wooster Group
John Jesurun
Jan Lauwers
Romeo Castellucci
She She Pop
René Pollesch
10:00am Robert Wilson – The Civil Wars (1984)
11:00am The Wooster Group – Brace Up! (1991/2003)
To You, The Birdie! ( Phèdre) (2002)
12:00pm John Jesurun – Shatterhand Massacree – Riderless Horse (1985)
Black Maria (1987)
1:00pm Jan Lauwers & Needcompany: The Deer House (2008)
2:00pm Romeo Castellucci – Orestea (2015)
Giulio Cesare Spared Parts (1997)
3:00pm She She Pop (with ihre Väter) – TESTAMENT (2010)
4:00pm René Pollesch – Stadt als Beute (City as Prey) (2005)
5:00pm Tadeusz Kantor – Dead Class (1975)
Evening Discussion:
6:30pm Postdramatic Theatre and the 21 Century
Hans-Thies Lehmann
7:00pm New Forms of Theatre – Conversation I
Uwe Mengel, John Jesurun, Molly Davies & Hans-Thies Lehmann
7:20pm Performance in the Age of Performance – Conversation II
Bertie Ferdman, André Lepecki & Hans-Thies Lehmann
7:40pm Dramaturgy and Asian Theatres – Conversation III
Peter Eckersall, Melissa Wansin Wong & Hans-Thies Lehmann
Tuesday, April 24
Daytime screenings of excerpts from works by:
Tadeusz Kantor
Théatre du Soleil/Ariane Mnouchkine
Klaus Michael Grüber
Einar Schleef
Angelus Novus
Jan Fabre
andcompany&Co
11:00am Ariane Mnouchkine/Théatre du Soleil – 1789 (1970)
Henri IV (1982)
12:00pm Klaus Michael Grüber – Die Bakchen (The Bacchae) (1974)
1:00pm Einar Schleef – Faust (1990)
Ein Sportstuck (by Elfriede Jelinek, 1998)
2:00pm Jan Fabre/Troubleyn – The Power of Theatrical Madness (1986, revived 2012)
Mount Olympus (2016)
3:00pm andcompany & Co. – Colonial Digital: The Empire Feeds Back! (2018)
4:00pm Rimini Protokoll – Wallenstein (2005)
Prometheus in Athens (2010)
5:00pm Gob Squad – Western Society (2013)
Evening Discussion:
6:30pm On Tragedy
Hans-Thies Lehmann
7:00pm On Writing – Conversation I
Elinor Fuchs, Jonathan Kalb & Hans-Thies Lehmann
7:20pm Theater of the Real – Conversation II
Marvin Carlson, Carol Martin & Hans-Thies Lehmann
7:40pm German Theatre and the Giessen Institut – Conversation III
Brandon Woolf, Frank Hentschker & Hans-Thies Lehmann
Special thanks to Richard Schechner and Yale University’s Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures (Katrin Trüstedt and Christian Kirchmeier).
Hans-Thies Lehmann is a professor emeritus for Theatre, Film, and Media Studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main from 1988 until he was given emeritus status. His publications include Bertolt Brecht’s Hauspostille–Text und kollektives Lesen (1978, with Helmut Lethen); Theater und Mythos. Die Konstitution des Subjekts im Diskurs der antiken Tragödie (1991); Postdramatisches Theater (1999, now a standard work and translated into 26 languages); Heiner Müller Handbuch (ed. with Patrick Primavesi, 2003); and Tragödie und dramatisches Theater (Routledge, 2013). Hans-Thies Lehmann first studied general and comparative literary studies in Berlin and studied for his doctorate with Peter Szondi until his death. After gaining his doctorate, he was a visiting professor at the Universiteit van Amsterdam from 1979 to 1982. From 1983 to 1988, he was a university assistant at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen, where he substantially contributed to establishing and shaping the course of study with colleague Andzej Wirth. As a university professor for theatre studies at the J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main he made a remarkable contribution in devising theatre, film, and music studies courses, as well as establishing a course on dramaturgy in the framework of the Hessische Theaterakademie. In addition to guest professorships in Paris (France), Kaunas (Lithuania), Kraków (Poland), and Virginia (USA), Lehmann also works as a dramaturg for Jossi Wieler, Peter Palitzsch, Christof Nel, Theodoros Terzopoulos, Jan Fabre, and produces his own stage projects. He is on the board of the Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft and a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Hans-Thies Lehmann lives in Berlin with theatre critic Helen Varopoulou.