Tragic Replay: Performativity, Myth and Reality in Milo Rau’s Medea’s Children

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F25%3A10512167" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/25:10512167 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=LhwwYBXUvW" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=LhwwYBXUvW</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/2571452X.2025.70.4" target="_blank" >10.14712/2571452X.2025.70.4</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Tragic Replay: Performativity, Myth and Reality in Milo Rau’s Medea’s Children

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This article considers the workings of performativity and agonism in Milo Rau&apos;s Medea&apos;s Children, presented at the National Theatre in Prague in November 2024. A provocative work that reimagines the Classical myth of Medea through a contemporary lens, Medea&apos;s Children raises pointed questions of theatrical affects and effects. The performance mobilises a repertoire of postdramatic and metatheatrical techniques that have come to characterize Rau&apos;s dramaturgy. Drawing a line from Jacques Derrida&apos;s thinking on absence, iterability and context through to Judith Butler&apos;s theory of performativity, the article analyses the use of non-professional child actors who both enact and reflect on the traumatic events of the performance, destabilizing the boundaries between reality and fiction, and presenting the myth as a living, polymorphous structure. Medea&apos;s Children thus generates a space where audience expectations are both anticipated and manipulated so that the act of performance becomes an agonistic arena. The concept of agonism (with reference to Chantal Mouffe) is used to explore how the play stages a confrontation between diverging viewpoints, highlighting the irreducible nature of societal (and existential) conflicts where differing perspectives on victimhood, justice, and suffering coexist and clash. Ultimately, the article contends that Medea&apos;s Children serves as a performative act of resistance, questioning the narratives of power and victimhood, and inviting the audience to weigh the complex interplay of personal and political struggles within the mythological and contemporary contexts it interleaves.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Tragic Replay: Performativity, Myth and Reality in Milo Rau’s Medea’s Children

Popis výsledku anglicky

This article considers the workings of performativity and agonism in Milo Rau&apos;s Medea&apos;s Children, presented at the National Theatre in Prague in November 2024. A provocative work that reimagines the Classical myth of Medea through a contemporary lens, Medea&apos;s Children raises pointed questions of theatrical affects and effects. The performance mobilises a repertoire of postdramatic and metatheatrical techniques that have come to characterize Rau&apos;s dramaturgy. Drawing a line from Jacques Derrida&apos;s thinking on absence, iterability and context through to Judith Butler&apos;s theory of performativity, the article analyses the use of non-professional child actors who both enact and reflect on the traumatic events of the performance, destabilizing the boundaries between reality and fiction, and presenting the myth as a living, polymorphous structure. Medea&apos;s Children thus generates a space where audience expectations are both anticipated and manipulated so that the act of performance becomes an agonistic arena. The concept of agonism (with reference to Chantal Mouffe) is used to explore how the play stages a confrontation between diverging viewpoints, highlighting the irreducible nature of societal (and existential) conflicts where differing perspectives on victimhood, justice, and suffering coexist and clash. Ultimately, the article contends that Medea&apos;s Children serves as a performative act of resistance, questioning the narratives of power and victimhood, and inviting the audience to weigh the complex interplay of personal and political struggles within the mythological and contemporary contexts it interleaves.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60205 - Literary theory

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EH22_008%2F0004595" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004595: Za hranice bezpečnosti: role konfliktu v posilování odolnosti</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture

ISSN

0862-8424

e-ISSN

2571-452X

Svazek periodika

70

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

35

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

50-65

Kód UT WoS článku

—

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105032686081