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    STUDIA DRAMATICA - Issue no. 1 / 2014  
         
  Article:   THEATRUL MUNDI. ABOUT INTERCULTURALISM, POLITICS AND BARBA’S UR-HAMLET.

Authors:  FERDINANDO TAVIANI. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  This paper proposes an analysis of Eugenio Barba’s Ur-Hamlet (2006, 2009), a performance based on Saxo Grammaticus’ chronicles. The analysis centres around main issues of the performance, such as interculturalism and politics. Eugenio Barba doesn’t make multicultural performances, he doesn’t make a spectacle out of the multicultural features. For him, these features are a premise. Barba favours interculturalism, i. e. an open dialogue between actors coming from various traditions. Working with actors trained inside different traditions, Barba respects meticulously the scenic behaviour that characterises the professional identity of each of them. Barba is not interested in the different stage traditions as such; he is interested in actors who have incorporated forms. This phenomenon, together with the profound political significations, makes the Ur-Hamlet such a great performance.

Keywords: Eugenio Barba, interculturalism, politics, Ur-Hamlet, Saxo Grammaticus.
 
         
     
         
         
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