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    STUDIA DRAMATICA - Issue no. 1 / 2019  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEW: LAYERS BEHIND THE MOMENT.

Authors:  MIHAI PEDESTRU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Stating that theatre is an evanescent art, the production “living” only for the brief interim between the audience’s entry and its departure, is a shibboleth commonly employed as an excuse for a certain lack of analytical rigor or objectivity in theatre criticism and history, both often approaching the phenomenon from either a literary or an anecdotal angle. While the myth of capturing a theatrical event in its entirety has fascinated artists and theorists alike, from Keir Elam’s dramatological analysis to Peter Brook’s remediations of his own productions or even Grotowski’s attempts at fixating and reproducing the “total act”, such “capture” has never been entirely successful. After all, it is the undeniable impossibility to revisit a performance that, while defining the art’s very nature, makes any attempt of analysis focus not on the actual analysandum, but on the analyst’s subjective memory thereof.  
         
     
         
         
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