碩士 / 國立臺北藝術大學 / 戲劇學系碩士班 / 100 / The 9/11 attack was a shock to the whole world. By repeatedly watching the TV clips of the two hijacked planes crashing into the Twin Towers, all of us became witness to this unprecedented event. Later, the U.S. government waged a “War on Terror,” sending troops to Afghanistan and Iraq to defend their so-called “liberty and justice.” Responding to such confrontations, the artists and playwrights have released their works on the 9/11 event and its aftermath—from international politics, traumatic memory, terrorism, globalization to the media coverage and interpretations. These theatrical responses to 9/11 have been springing up on the Western Stage, breeding a new genre in the Western Theatre.
For the playwrights, the inevitable challenge of writing about a factual event is to create certain historical distance for the play to be both an authentic portrayal and critical interpretations. Of the 9/11 plays, David Hare and Michel Vinaver both wove the event itself in political and historical context. Stuff Happens by Hare provides the British viewpoint, while 11 September 2001 by Vinaver offers the French one. Between representation and recreation, they apply different dramatic finesses to examine the event and present their own interpretation. Rather than narrating the past to allude the present, both playwrights adopt the “here and now” as the theatrical theme. However, when the here and now cut across drama, how to fill up the void caused by the media coverage without lacking historical distance? Moreover, what exactly do Hare and Vinaver reveal their critical observations in Stuff Happens and 11 September 2001?
These two stage plays in terms of formal and thematic concerns, share the same struggles: the questions about the aesthetics of representing 9/11, and about what kind of the position does theatre take when reacting to the current disorder in politics, power, and ethics. This study analyses the two texts, Hare’s Stuff Happens and Vinaver’s 11 September 2001, relies on the public discourse and the documents of 9/11, theatre discourse, and theatre reviews to explore the relationship between 9/11 and the play relates to it as well as to discuss about certain issues on putting 9/11 into play.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/100TNUA5510004 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Chia-Chen Chang, 張家甄 |
| Contributors | Lilly Yang, 楊莉莉 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 118 |
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