Between Jerusalem and Athens: Israeli Theatre and the Classical Tradition Nurit Yaari

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Product details:

• ISBN 10: 0191093149
• ISBN 13: 9780191093142
• Author: Nurit Yaari

How does a theatrical tradition emerge in the fields of dramatic writing and artistic performance? How can a culture in which theatre played no part in the past create a theatrical tradition in the modern world? How do political and social conditions affect the encounter between cultures, and what role do they play in creating a theatre with a distinctive identity? This volume attempts to answer these and other questions in the first in-depth study of the reception of ancient Greek drama in Israeli theatre over the last 70 years. Exploring how engagement with classical culture has shaped the evolution of Israel’s theatrical identity, it draws on both dramatic and aesthetic issues – from mise en scène to ‘post dramatic’ performance – and offers ground-breaking analysis of a wide range of translations and adaptations of Greek drama, as well as new writing inspired by Greek antiquity. The detailed discussion of how the performances of these works were created and staged at key points in the development of Israeli culture not only sheds new light on the reception of ancient Greek drama in an important theatrical and cultural context, but also offers a new and illuminating perspective on artistic responses to the fateful political, social, and cultural events in Israel’s recent history.

Table contents:

1 Introduction
2 Habima: Outsidedness as a Catalyst of Creativity
3 The Cameri: In Search of Local Theatrical Identity
4 Experimentations: Putting the Aesthetics of Performance into Practice
5 Aristophanes and the Occupied Territories
6 The Trojan War and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
7 Lysistrata: Between Entertainment and Protest
8 Nissim Aloni: Oedipus Tyrannus in an Immigrant Society
9 Hanoch Levin: From Ancient Myths to Modern Tragedy
10 Classical Presences and ‘Post Dramatic’ Performances
11 The Classical Tradition in University Theatre
12 Israeli Theatre: A Snapshot of Today and Future Prospects

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