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Holding a Mirror Up to Theatre

Milo Rau’s La Reprise: Histoire(s) du théâtre (I)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2021

Carol Martin
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Abstract

Swiss director Milo Rau holds a mirror up to theatre to call into question its assumptions, conventions, and relationship to daily life. Rau’s nonfictional story of the murder of Ihsane Jarfi takes place within two overarching narratives with different timeframes—what happens on the stage now, and what happened beyond the stage then. His dramaturgy cautions against both suspension of disbelief and catharsis and against confusing the fictional with the real.

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TDR , Volume 65 , Issue 1 , March 2021 , pp. 54 - 61
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© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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