International Colloquium
30 Oct - 1 Nov 2009
Institute of Romance Studies at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

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Inmaculada López Silva (Escola Superior de Arte Dramática de Galicia, Spain)
Contemporary theatre in a “post-” perspective: postdrama as the antisemiotical (r)evolution?

One of the main goals of both contemporary theatre and theatre theory is to overcome the traditional semiotical perspective, strongly based on structuralism. Since the 80s and following this idea, theatre artists and theorists have been thinking theatre from a post-structuralist and even deconstructivist point of view. This perspective has introduced important streams in theatre theory, such as feminism, post-marxism and postmodernity, and has given place to the phenomenon known as “post-dramatic” theatre. Having this in mind, this article deals with some of Julia Kristeva’s reflexions about semiotics, post-structuralism and postmodernity to discuss if this so-called “post-drama” implies a rupture with traditional theatre theory, or if, otherwise, it is only another form of postmodern provocation.