“The Many Languages of the Avant-Garde”: In conversation with Grzegorz Bral of Teatr Pieśń Kozła (Song of the Goat Theatre)

Abstract

How to theorise and review avant-garde Shakespeare? Which theoretical paradigms should be applied when Shakespearean productions are multicultural and yet come from a specific locale? These and other many questions interrogating the language of performance in global avant-garde Shakespeare productions are put forward to Grzegorz Bral, the director of the Song of the Goat ensemble in the context of their evolving performance of Macbeth (2006/2008) and their Songs of Lear (2012).

Keywords

• avant-garde theatre
• intercultural theatre
• jerzy grotowski
• gardzienice
• globalisation
• the global versus the local
• post-colonialism
• western culture
• montage
• post-dramatic theatre
• utopian primitivism
• intertextuality
• text
• adaptation