The Metamodern Theatre Symposium
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Drayton, T. 2024. The Metamodern Theatre Symposium.
Authors | Drayton, T. |
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Abstract | Postmodern theatre is dead. A new theatre is rising – one that combines the well-worn postmodern aesthetics of irony, detachment, and deconstruction with a paradoxical interest in authenticity, engagement, and re-construction. Whilst recent scholarship has treated these evolving interests as unrelated shifts in performance aesthetics, [we propose] a new understanding: that these are part of a wider emerging cultural paradigm – metamodernism.* As a post-postmodern structure of feeling, metamodernism is characterised by an oscillation between disparate polarities; art that is simultaneously sincere and sarcastic, ironic and enthusiastic, hopeful and hopeless. The Metamodern Theatre Symposium coincides with and builds upon the publication of Metamodernism in Contemporary British Theatre: A Politics of Hope/lessness (Bloomsbury 2024) which offers a pioneering framework by which to identify and understand metamodern theatre. By drawing critical links between the works of performance theorists such as Anne Bogart and Andy Lavender and the metamodern as defined by Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker, the book makes a clear, vital, and urgent case for the use of the term metamodernism within mainstream theatre scholarship in order to understand emergent developments in post-millennial theatre practice. The Metamodern Theatre Symposium aimed to explore this new understanding of post-postmodern performance through an informal, discursive and accessible half-day programme comprised of presentations, panels, performances and a book launch. This was a hybrid event running synchronously in person at The University of East London’s USS Campus in Stratford (East London) and online via Microsoft Teams. Video documentation of the entire symposium is available in 5 parts via: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0l8HpObjzpwheVe8Fd_vUk_9BC6Z... |
Keywords | metamodern; metamodernism; theatre |
Year | 2024 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0l8HpObjzpwheVe8Fd_vUk_9BC6ZqAd5 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 03 Dec 2024 |
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Deposited | 06 Jan 2025 |
Copyright information | © 2024, The Author |
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