【5月22日】
/上外英语学院·文学沙龙系列讲座/
Future theatre
—how theatre uses the future to talk about the present day
主讲人：Peter Eckersall
时间：5月22日（周五）13:00-15:15
地点：松江校区第五教学楼5313教室
讲座简介
What can theatre tell us about the future of our world? We see artists returning to ‘future dreaming’ and using science fiction to tell stories about our world. How does this expand the ancient role of theatre as a ‘seeing place’(theatron)? What are the creative possibilities of this kind of approach in theatre? This lecture will explore the history of future theatre and how artists use the future to talk about the present day. The lecture will discuss some early examples of ‘future thinking’ before discussing the rise postmodern theatre—and the collapse of time—and how this now impacts on our theatre in the contemporary moment.
主讲人简介
Peter Eckersall is the Sidney E. Cohn Professor in Theatre at the Graduate Center City University of New York. His research expertise includes Japanese Theatre, Dramaturgy, Contemporary Performance, and Performance and Media. Recent book publications include Dramaturgy to Make Visible: The Legacies of New Dramaturgy for Politics and Performance in Our Times (Routledge 2024), The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics (ed. with Helena Grehan, Routledge 2019), New Media Dramaturgy (co-authored with Helena Grehan and Ed Scheer, Palgrave 2017), and Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan (Palgrave 2013). He is resident dramaturg of the Not Yet It’s Difficult performance group (Melbourne). Recent dramaturgy includes Everything Starts from a Dot (Sachiyo Takahashi, LaMaMa), Phantom Sun/Northern Drift (Alexis Destoop, Beursschouwburg, Riga Biennial).
