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Research paper thumbnail of Introduction A Hellenic Modernism: Greek Theatre and Italian Fascism

Classical Receptions Journal, Dec 31, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Rewriting Greek Tragedy from 1970 to 2005

EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

Research paper thumbnail of Mythologies of Genesis and Neo-Nazi Palingenesis: Commemorating the Battle of Thermopylae in the Political Rites of the Golden Dawn

Humanities

This article examines the public commemorations of the battle of Thermopylae held by the Greek ne... more This article examines the public commemorations of the battle of Thermopylae held by the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn in the wider context of fascist appropriations of classical antiquity. The discussion focuses on the rhetorical and cultural mechanisms involved in transforming the historical event into a fascist mythology. Drawing on methodologies of narrative analysis and performance studies, I examine the narrative patterns and ritual practices deployed in these commemorations to engross the participants in stories of genesis and rebirth. During the commemorations of Thermopylae, Golden Dawn strove to revive both the spirit of the Spartan soldiers and the ideals of Nazism. The example of GD demonstrates that the persistence of the narrative of rebirth within neo-Nazi cultures is instrumental in the resurgence of fascism. By looking at this example closely, we can conclude that commitment of neo-Nazi groups to classical antiquity invites reflection upon the role of classical t...

Research paper thumbnail of Epidaurus Encounters: Greek Drama, Ancient Theatre and Modern Performance

Research paper thumbnail of Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism. Edited by S. E. Wilmer and Audronė Žukauskaitė. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011 ; Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage. Edited by Erin B. Mee and Helene P. Foley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Monumental Texts in Ruins: Greek tragedy in Greece and Michael Marmarinos’s Postmodern Stagings

Research paper thumbnail of Reinscribing the Other in Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy and Epic

Research paper thumbnail of Spectres of Greekness at the time of corona

Journal of Greek Media & Culture, 2020

Take-down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing... more Take-down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.

Research paper thumbnail of Erika Fischer-Lichte Tragedy’s Endurance: Performances of Greek Tragedies and Cultural Identity in Germany since 1800 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 398p. £80. ISBN: 978-0-19-96516-4

New Theatre Quarterly, 2019

lems of belonging, prejudice, and in particular the issues related to dispossession. Wilmer draws... more lems of belonging, prejudice, and in particular the issues related to dispossession. Wilmer draws on biopolitical theories of bare life (Agamben, Butler, and Foucault) to sketch the problems attendant on people fleeing persecution and threat and who must then survive in chal leng ing conditions elsewhere. However, there are some surprising omissions in the attendant litera tures on refugee performance, most notably the significant work of UK-based scholars Emma Cox, Marilena Zaroulia, and Alison Jeffers, whose works have set the parameters of how perform ance stages refugeeism. This leads to a central concern about the work: namely, for a volume that claims to be ‘about’ performing statelessness, there is little to indicate what Wilmer under stands statelessness to mean. There is a sense of conflation between ‘refugee’, ‘asylum seeker’, and even unwed Irish mother and statelessness – a condition under which one is not recognized as a national under state law. Wilmers’ focus on Irish Magdalene laundries considers immersive theatre approaches by Anu (Laundry, 2011). The attendant access to contexts, histories, and stages of dispossession in these examples is interesting, but it is ultimately un clear as to how it relates to the whole argument. While there is much to be lauded in the scope of the performance examples explored in the book, these conflations render it surprisingly lacking in politics. This is unfortunate, as performance analyses of relations between whose lives matter, how states treat the most marginal, and the complex machinations of subjecthood under the state are sorely needed. Chapter Two explores how productive ancient Greek drama has been for the exploration of tragic conditions of refugees, (in)hospitality, and trauma. The focus here is less on staging than adaptation – in particular valuable attention to Jelinek’s renowned production of The Suppliants. Chapter Three furthers an engaging proposition that fictionalized accounts animate a ‘perform ative identification’, enacting a sense of encounter between citizens and non-citizens. Where the book is most productive is in its contextualization of significant works and their reception. The final chapter on the institutional response of German theatre – despite conflation between immigration and statelessness – outlines the importance of mainstream theatres’ contribu tion to national debates about migration, nation hood and Europe. As a wide-ranging examination of artists that investigates states, citizenship, and the refugee in performance, this work offers access to many under-explored productions and would be valuable to those new to refugee per formance, or readers with an interest in histories of representation of Europe’s moral ‘crisis’. aylwyn walsh doi:10.1017/S0266464X18000672

Research paper thumbnail of Viewing through the Frame of Tragedy

Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of From Author–God to Textual Communion

Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Textual Fragments and Sexual Politics

Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Tragic Absences and Metatheatrical Performances

Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames

Research paper thumbnail of Crisis, Ruptures and the Rapture of an Imperceptible Aesthetics: A Recent History of the Hellenic Festival

The focus of this article lies on the recent history of the Hellenic Festival, discussing the so-... more The focus of this article lies on the recent history of the Hellenic Festival, discussing the so-called new phase after 2006, when Giorgos Loukos took over as artistic director. While the Festival claimed an international profile promoting collaborations with major European festivals and theatre companies, its policies had to go through restructuring due to the raging economic crisis. The years from 2010 to the present marked a rupture with previous discourses and politics, turning the Festival into a topos of transformation and fluidity which seems to elude certain conditions of production and reception pertaining to its past history. The article presents an inquiry into the official policies as much as the artistic practices which constitute this topos, while also mapping out the emergent trends which produce its particular dynamic.

Research paper thumbnail of From Translation to Performance Reception : The Death of the Author and the Performance Text

Theorising Performance : Greek Drama, Cultural History and Critical Practice

Research paper thumbnail of Το Τέλος Των Ευγενών Πόθων (Theatre Review)

Research paper thumbnail of Tragedy and Modern Critical Debate

Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Chorus and the Vaterland: Greek Tragedy and the Ideology of Choral Performance in Inter-War Germany

Choruses, Ancient and Modern, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism. Edited by S. E. Wilmer and Audronė Žukauskaitė. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, Pp. xiv + 429. £84 Hb.Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage. Edited by Erin B. Mee and Helene P. Foley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. P...

Theatre Research International, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction A Hellenic Modernism: Greek Theatre and Italian Fascism

Classical Receptions Journal, Dec 31, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Rewriting Greek Tragedy from 1970 to 2005

EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

Research paper thumbnail of Mythologies of Genesis and Neo-Nazi Palingenesis: Commemorating the Battle of Thermopylae in the Political Rites of the Golden Dawn

Humanities

This article examines the public commemorations of the battle of Thermopylae held by the Greek ne... more This article examines the public commemorations of the battle of Thermopylae held by the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn in the wider context of fascist appropriations of classical antiquity. The discussion focuses on the rhetorical and cultural mechanisms involved in transforming the historical event into a fascist mythology. Drawing on methodologies of narrative analysis and performance studies, I examine the narrative patterns and ritual practices deployed in these commemorations to engross the participants in stories of genesis and rebirth. During the commemorations of Thermopylae, Golden Dawn strove to revive both the spirit of the Spartan soldiers and the ideals of Nazism. The example of GD demonstrates that the persistence of the narrative of rebirth within neo-Nazi cultures is instrumental in the resurgence of fascism. By looking at this example closely, we can conclude that commitment of neo-Nazi groups to classical antiquity invites reflection upon the role of classical t...

Research paper thumbnail of Epidaurus Encounters: Greek Drama, Ancient Theatre and Modern Performance

Research paper thumbnail of Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism. Edited by S. E. Wilmer and Audronė Žukauskaitė. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011 ; Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage. Edited by Erin B. Mee and Helene P. Foley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Monumental Texts in Ruins: Greek tragedy in Greece and Michael Marmarinos’s Postmodern Stagings

Research paper thumbnail of Reinscribing the Other in Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy and Epic

Research paper thumbnail of Spectres of Greekness at the time of corona

Journal of Greek Media & Culture, 2020

Take-down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing... more Take-down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.

Research paper thumbnail of Erika Fischer-Lichte Tragedy’s Endurance: Performances of Greek Tragedies and Cultural Identity in Germany since 1800 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 398p. £80. ISBN: 978-0-19-96516-4

New Theatre Quarterly, 2019

lems of belonging, prejudice, and in particular the issues related to dispossession. Wilmer draws... more lems of belonging, prejudice, and in particular the issues related to dispossession. Wilmer draws on biopolitical theories of bare life (Agamben, Butler, and Foucault) to sketch the problems attendant on people fleeing persecution and threat and who must then survive in chal leng ing conditions elsewhere. However, there are some surprising omissions in the attendant litera tures on refugee performance, most notably the significant work of UK-based scholars Emma Cox, Marilena Zaroulia, and Alison Jeffers, whose works have set the parameters of how perform ance stages refugeeism. This leads to a central concern about the work: namely, for a volume that claims to be ‘about’ performing statelessness, there is little to indicate what Wilmer under stands statelessness to mean. There is a sense of conflation between ‘refugee’, ‘asylum seeker’, and even unwed Irish mother and statelessness – a condition under which one is not recognized as a national under state law. Wilmers’ focus on Irish Magdalene laundries considers immersive theatre approaches by Anu (Laundry, 2011). The attendant access to contexts, histories, and stages of dispossession in these examples is interesting, but it is ultimately un clear as to how it relates to the whole argument. While there is much to be lauded in the scope of the performance examples explored in the book, these conflations render it surprisingly lacking in politics. This is unfortunate, as performance analyses of relations between whose lives matter, how states treat the most marginal, and the complex machinations of subjecthood under the state are sorely needed. Chapter Two explores how productive ancient Greek drama has been for the exploration of tragic conditions of refugees, (in)hospitality, and trauma. The focus here is less on staging than adaptation – in particular valuable attention to Jelinek’s renowned production of The Suppliants. Chapter Three furthers an engaging proposition that fictionalized accounts animate a ‘perform ative identification’, enacting a sense of encounter between citizens and non-citizens. Where the book is most productive is in its contextualization of significant works and their reception. The final chapter on the institutional response of German theatre – despite conflation between immigration and statelessness – outlines the importance of mainstream theatres’ contribu tion to national debates about migration, nation hood and Europe. As a wide-ranging examination of artists that investigates states, citizenship, and the refugee in performance, this work offers access to many under-explored productions and would be valuable to those new to refugee per formance, or readers with an interest in histories of representation of Europe’s moral ‘crisis’. aylwyn walsh doi:10.1017/S0266464X18000672

Research paper thumbnail of Viewing through the Frame of Tragedy

Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of From Author–God to Textual Communion

Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Textual Fragments and Sexual Politics

Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Tragic Absences and Metatheatrical Performances

Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames

Research paper thumbnail of Crisis, Ruptures and the Rapture of an Imperceptible Aesthetics: A Recent History of the Hellenic Festival

The focus of this article lies on the recent history of the Hellenic Festival, discussing the so-... more The focus of this article lies on the recent history of the Hellenic Festival, discussing the so-called new phase after 2006, when Giorgos Loukos took over as artistic director. While the Festival claimed an international profile promoting collaborations with major European festivals and theatre companies, its policies had to go through restructuring due to the raging economic crisis. The years from 2010 to the present marked a rupture with previous discourses and politics, turning the Festival into a topos of transformation and fluidity which seems to elude certain conditions of production and reception pertaining to its past history. The article presents an inquiry into the official policies as much as the artistic practices which constitute this topos, while also mapping out the emergent trends which produce its particular dynamic.

Research paper thumbnail of From Translation to Performance Reception : The Death of the Author and the Performance Text

Theorising Performance : Greek Drama, Cultural History and Critical Practice

Research paper thumbnail of Το Τέλος Των Ευγενών Πόθων (Theatre Review)

Research paper thumbnail of Tragedy and Modern Critical Debate

Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Chorus and the Vaterland: Greek Tragedy and the Ideology of Choral Performance in Inter-War Germany

Choruses, Ancient and Modern, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism. Edited by S. E. Wilmer and Audronė Žukauskaitė. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, Pp. xiv + 429. £84 Hb.Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage. Edited by Erin B. Mee and Helene P. Foley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. P...

Theatre Research International, 2012