Submitted by Automação e Estatística (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2018-07-02T22:10:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FrankDuesberg_DISSERT.pdf: 4609176 bytes, checksum: 177b112624afd63e80879bdd8aa1fce9 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2018-07-09T13:31:25Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 FrankDuesberg_DISSERT.pdf: 4609176 bytes, checksum: 177b112624afd63e80879bdd8aa1fce9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-09T13:31:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FrankDuesberg_DISSERT.pdf: 4609176 bytes, checksum: 177b112624afd63e80879bdd8aa1fce9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-22 / Esta pesquisa indaga a possibilidade de uma experiência trágica de um espectador ou do autor no teatro contemporâneo. O objetivo é questionar a possibilidade da concentração do trágico, por exemplo, em um gesto performático. Hans-Thies Lehmann, no seu livro ‘Tragödie und dramatisches Theater’ (2014), reflete sobre a experiência trágica, que envolve vários aspectos, como a estetização de um acontecimento trágico, a cisão dessa estetização e uma reflexão. Foram criados e pesquisados múltiplas reescritas, experimentos e fragmentos reunidos sob o nome de ‘Estrada V’, baseados principalmente na obra ‘A Estrada de Volokolamsk’, de Heiner Müller e nas experiências do presente autor. O foco ficou nas reflexões e práticas em relação ao público e da possibilidade de uma experiência trágica vir a ocorrer. Constatou-se que no mundo moderno, a mística do excesso não precisa ser mais grandiosa, porém exige-se uma aumentada atenção com o comum. O teatro da tragédia contemporâneo é um local de conscientização intensa de perda, onde o sujeito é confrontado com a dissolução inevitável do ser e com uma experiência da própria finitude. Neste contexto, o trágico no teatro contemporâneo investiga o sujeito fragmentado do mundo atual, tocando na antiga e sempre renovada experiência do excesso. O destino fundamental do caráter trágico é seu desejo de investigação por uma verdade maior, em um mundo onde não há certezas e postulados irrefutáveis. Foi verificado que na arte performática a criação do trágico nasce do afeto, estabelecendo uma conexão específica entre o performador e o receptor, permitindo o surgimento de uma experiência trágica. / This research investigates the possibility of a tragic experience of a spectator or the author in contemporary theater. The objective is to question the possibility of the concentration of tragic, for example, in a performance gesture. Hans-Thies Lehmann, in his book 'Tragödie und dramatisches Theater' (2014), reflects on the tragic experience, which involves several aspects, such as the aestheticization of a tragic event, the breakup of this aesthetization and a reflection. Multiple re-writings, experiments and fragments were collected and researched organized under the name of 'Estrada V', based mainly on Heiner Müller's 'The Road of Volokolamsk' and the experiences of the present author. The focus was on reflections and practices of the relationship between stage and the public and the possibility of a tragic experience to occur. It has been found that in the modern world, the mystique of excess need not be grand, but an increased attention to the common is demanded. The theater of contemporary tragedy is a place of intense awareness of loss, where the subject is confronted with the inevitable dissolution of being and with an experience of one's own finitude. In this context, the tragic in contemporary theater investigates the fragmented subject of the present world, touching on the old and always renewed experience of excess. The fundamental destiny of the tragic character is its desire to investigate for a greater truth in a world where there are no certainties and irrefutable postulates. It was verified that in performance art the creation of the tragic arises from affection, establishing a specific connection between the performer and the receiver, allowing the emergence of a tragic experience.

This master’s thesis is concerned with the portrayal of motherhood and mother-daughter relationships on stage. By conducting performance analyses of three separate contemporary performances, all focused on mother-daughter relationships, the thesis investigates the creation of mother and daughter on stage. Through the lens of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s theory on postdramatic theatre, the thesis dissects aspects of the performances moving beyond the dramatic action to gain further insight into the portrayal of mother and daughter on stage. The thesis aims to investigate the aspects contributing to the creation of mother and daughter on stage, as well as analyse the conveyed meaning of the relationship between them. Combined with a feminist approach, the role of mother and daughter on stage is placed in a larger context, analysing motherhood as an institution and concept, both on and off stage. By understanding the intimate and complex mother-daughter relationship as a product of patriarchal structure, it becomes necessary and relevant to investigate this relationship further. Since the performances portray private relationships in a public space, the analysis is also concerned with the interrelation between the stage and the outside world. The analysed performances are Und dann kam Mirna at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin, Kung Mor at Teater Galeasen in Stockholm and Mommy Issues at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm. The material for the thesis mainly consists of my experiences of the performances in the role of spectator and the theatre texts. By using Lehmann’s theory as a starting point, the analyses are centred around moving beyond the narrative to investigate other aspects on stage, such as objects, physicality, levels of reality, intertextuality, intermediality and the use of text on stage. The thesis dissects how these aspects contribute to the creation of mother and daughter on stage, as well as analyses the portrayed generational differences and their impact on the mother-daughter relationship in the performances. The analyses place the portrayed mothers and daughters into a larger context, by including concepts such as performativity and the male gaze. The thesis shows how the portrayal of motherhood and mother-daughter relationships on stage can be created by reaching beyond a narrative or a desired understandability. Together, the three performance analyses contribute with concluding insights into the internal logic and structures of the performances.