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1	Performing Jewish Rituals on Stage: The Case of S. An-sky’s The Dybbuk: or Between Two Worlds Marcus, Noah 27 September 2022 (has links) This thesis examines the intersection between the performance of Jewish religious rituals in real life and their performance in theatre, as exemplified through a case study of S. An-sky’s seminal and often adapted play: The Dybbuk: Or Between Two Worlds. In addition to An-sky’s original text, this thesis takes Tony Kushner’s 1997 adaptation A Dybbuk: or Between Two Worlds and Soulpepper Theatre’s 2015 adaptation The Dybbuk, Or Between Two Worlds as its subjects. By utilizing dramaturgical analysis, performance analysis, and historiography, this thesis names, describes, and analyzes the major techniques used to translate the performance of Jewish rituals from the real world onto the stage as well as the dramaturgical and performative effects these rituals enact. This analysis is further contextualized through the theoretical lenses of adaptation, translation, and Jewish Studies. This thesis examines not only how a playwright and/or director translates the performance of Jewish rituals onto the stage and how those rituals impact the construction and performance of the text, but also how this performative practice can both introduce and reinforce Jewish cultural and religious knowledge in contemporary North American society. Jewish Theatre S. An-sky The Dybbuk
2	Encounters with the Real: A Zizekian Approach to the Sublime and the Fantastic in Contemporary Drama Wolfe, Graham 18 January 2012 (has links) This study brings the insights of Slavoj Žižek’s Lacan-inspired approach to bear upon a series of influential 20th century plays and their engagement with what Lacan calls the Real. The plays to be explored share a focus on experiences, events or encounters which transcend, exceed, disrupt, and in some cases shatter characters’ normal, familiar realities. Examined through the lens of Žižek, these confrontations with the sublime and the fantastic reveal a crucial relation to the plays’ contemporary contexts, prompting us to “look awry” upon the dynamics of our own symbolically-regulated reality and the ever-changing and precarious nature of our relation to it. Similarly crucial is the relation of the Lacanian Real to our theatrical forms and modes of perception in the theatre. In staging “encounters with the Real,” these plays prompt us simultaneously to explore the ways in which the Real operates —and “appears” — in our own theatrical experience, ensnaring our gaze and the force of our desire. The study offers a Žižekian approach to works including Peter Shaffer’s Equus, John Mighton’s Possible Worlds, S. An-sky’s The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds, Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker, Tony Kushner’s The Illusion, and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s Enigma Variations. drama Slavoj Zizek theatre psychoanalysis Caryl Churchill Peter Shaffer S. An-sky Tony Kushner Jacques Lacan John Mighton Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt The Dybbuk Equus The Skriker Possible Worlds The Illusion Enigma Variations sublime fantastic 0465 0401 0422
3	Encounters with the Real: A Zizekian Approach to the Sublime and the Fantastic in Contemporary Drama Wolfe, Graham 18 January 2012 (has links) This study brings the insights of Slavoj Žižek’s Lacan-inspired approach to bear upon a series of influential 20th century plays and their engagement with what Lacan calls the Real. The plays to be explored share a focus on experiences, events or encounters which transcend, exceed, disrupt, and in some cases shatter characters’ normal, familiar realities. Examined through the lens of Žižek, these confrontations with the sublime and the fantastic reveal a crucial relation to the plays’ contemporary contexts, prompting us to “look awry” upon the dynamics of our own symbolically-regulated reality and the ever-changing and precarious nature of our relation to it. Similarly crucial is the relation of the Lacanian Real to our theatrical forms and modes of perception in the theatre. In staging “encounters with the Real,” these plays prompt us simultaneously to explore the ways in which the Real operates —and “appears” — in our own theatrical experience, ensnaring our gaze and the force of our desire. The study offers a Žižekian approach to works including Peter Shaffer’s Equus, John Mighton’s Possible Worlds, S. An-sky’s The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds, Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker, Tony Kushner’s The Illusion, and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s Enigma Variations. drama Slavoj Zizek theatre psychoanalysis Caryl Churchill Peter Shaffer S. An-sky Tony Kushner Jacques Lacan John Mighton Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt The Dybbuk Equus The Skriker Possible Worlds The Illusion Enigma Variations sublime fantastic 0465 0401 0422

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