All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater

Bennett, Benjamin

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“…Before the staging of the play was suppressed, the Theatre had written the following introduction for its programme: "Snowball War is primarily a family drama, with its father protagonist (the Finnish Foreign Affairs Minister), two boys, and a mother, each representing very different points of view; but the play's events also have a wider political context, which is clearly linked to current world events." 4 1 Bennett 2005, 6. 2 Holmström 1993Koski 1987Koski , 125-7 & 1992Zilliacus 1979.…”

Section: Snowball War Taking Shape and The 1939 Threat Of War In Finlandmentioning

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When Contextual Events Become Central to Fiction

Koski

2024

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When the Finnish Winter War erupted at the end of November 1939, it caused consternation beyond the borders of Finland; after all, mighty U.S.S.R had just attacked a small independent neighbouring country, justifying the aggression with securing its own domestic interests. I will be examining two contemporary Winter War plays and their genesis: Hagar Olsson’s Lumisota (Snowball War, 1939) depicts the threat of a fictitious war and the conflicting reactions to that threat – reactions that were put to the test during rehearsals when the prospect of war became imminent, mirroring events in the play. On the other hand, American Robert E. Sherwood set his play There Shall be No Night (1940) during the Finnish Winter War as it was being waged. The former play received a Finnish performance ban right before the Soviet attack as the portents of war reached fever pitch, and the latter initially received accolades and achieved success, but performances of the play were eventually halted when events in the European theatre of war took another turn, impacting US foreign policy.The plays under analysis keenly exemplify drama’s firm connection with its surrounding realities. The pacificism of the playwrights themselves had to stand aside, or take on new forms, when a real war with all its political decision-making emerged from behind a fictitious story.

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When Contextual Events Become Central to Fiction

Koski

2024

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“…Zygmunt Hubner (1988) señala en Theater and Politics la naturaleza de un teatro de lucha social (Theatrum militans) en constante oposición a las ideologías políticas de carácter propagandista (p. 104). Asimismo, Benjamín Bennett (2005), en All Theater is Revolutionary Theater exige que el teatro rompa contra cualquier forma de opresión, ya que el ámbito artístico literario posee las herramientas para movilizar a las masas y así alcanzar un cambio social.6 Junto con los mecanismos del teatro de oposición y denuncia, se refuerza el llamado "teatro histórico. "7 Antonio Buero Vallejo (1994) en "Acerca del drama histórico" reafirma el enfrentamiento del teatro con las verdades históricas, pero nos recuerda que es preciso reevaluar y no destruir la historia.…”

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Próceres de la historia: mitos, caos y drama en Memorias y olvidos de José de San Martín de Antonio Elio Brailovsky

Sandoval-Leon

2021

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El presente artículo se encarga de examinar el uso de los discursos históricos a través de la (re)construcción de los mitos en la obra teatral Memorias y olvidos de José de San Martín (1992) del argentino Antonio Elio Brailovsky. Para esto, nos enfocamos en el empleo de la parodia y la metateatralidad para reforzar la aproximación crítica de contextos sociopolíticos en el pasado y presente. De este modo, uno de los propósitos de este artículo radica en identificar la manipulación discursiva en ámbitos políticos que intentan enmascarar la precariedad en distintos sectores sociales. La obra de Brailovsky nos permite reflexionar sobre la circularidad en la opresión en el lenguaje que se viene dando desde la creación de la nación argentina.

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Drama und Performativität

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2012

Handbuch Drama

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All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater

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When Contextual Events Become Central to Fiction

When Contextual Events Become Central to Fiction

Próceres de la historia: mitos, caos y drama en Memorias y olvidos de José de San Martín de Antonio Elio Brailovsky

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