Postdramatic theatre: directing

Looking for information about postdramatic theatre directors I found an article called Tracing Creation: The Director’s Notebook as Genetic Document of the Postdramatic Creative Process (By F. Le Roy, E. Cassiers, T. Crombez and L. Van de Dries).  In this article the authors remark the importance of new media in the creative process of the director, as he/she would use different resources to get inspiration, take notes, visualize his/her ideas and design them. In this way, the creative process for postdramatic theatre has become hybrid. They use two Belgian theatre directors as an example of this: Jan Fabre and Luk Percebal.

Jan Fabre uses drawing as a tool to put into paper what he imagines, this can be for the preparation of a rehearsal, as a way to portray what he thinks during a rehearsal or after the performance, while Luk Percebal uses video; he records rehearsals and shows the records to the rest of the cast when he wants to make a point or change something.

As it is stated in this article, postdramatic theatre doesn’t just develop around the text. As Hans-Thies Lehmann argued ‘one of the main characteristics of the postdramatic performance aesthetic is a shift away from theatre’s logo-centric legacy and towards performance’.

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