Theatres of Reality, Fiction, and Temporality: Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller’s <em>Ibsen-Saga</em> (2006 - 2015)

<p>This dissertation examines the influence of modernist aesthetics and ideologies on contemporary, European and U.S. experimental theatre. I argue that modernist and contemporary experimental theatres offer competing notions of reality, fiction, and temporality, which I interrogate through Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller’s <em>Ibsen-Saga</em>. I illuminate this tension by reading current modes of performance against the <em>Saga</em>’s productions and work practices, as well as their aesthetic and ideological foundation in three modernist sources: the artificiality of Ibsen’s realism, the utopianism and totality of Richard Wagner’s <em>Gesamtkunstwerk</em>, and the temporal provocations of the historical avant-gardes. I contend that the <em>Saga </em>reanimates Ibsen, Wagner, and the avant-gardes’ modernist forms and ideas to reject the conventions of twenty-first century practice.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Theatre

Grantor

The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Friedman, Andrew L

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Marvin Carlson

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Jean Graham-Jones
• David Savran

• Cultural History
• Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory
• European History
• German Literature
• Performance Studies
• Scandinavian Studies
• Theatre and Performance Studies
• Theatre History
• Henrik Ibsen; Richard Wagner; Historical Avant-Gardes; Modernism; Experimental Theatre; Modern Drama

Repository record dc:identifier

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1247

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-2276