“To Change the Order Between Things”
Theatricality and Ecocriticism in Stifters Dinge
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https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-2096.2023.40984Keywords:
Heiner Goebbels, theater and intermediality, ecocriticismAbstract
The paper addresses the theatrical experiment Stifters Dinge, by theater director and musical composer Heiner Goebbels, first premiered in 2007. Drawing from an analysis of this play without actors, understood as a project of mise-en-scène of human-non human assemblages, it reflects on the convergence between aspects of two theoretical-practical debates which address the problem of intermediality in theater and a few ecocritical challenges fostered in respect to spontaneous assumptions identified in a widespread ecological thought. In regard to the first debate, the paper aims at a cross-reading between intermedial approaches to the history of Theater and a discussion on the problem of the materialities staged in the play. As for the second debate, the paper approaches the issue of the status of “thing” elaborated by the play, having in mind theoretical approaches to a new understanding of the relations between nature and culture and the notions of ambience and agency.
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