Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone (Jun 2018)

From Dionysus in 69 to Imagining O: discussing nakedness with Richard Schechner

  • Chloé Lavalette

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Vol. 16

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Born in 1934, Richard Schechner is an American theatre director and theorist. The former director of the Performance Group with which he wrote Dionysus in 69, he is also editor of the famous TDR: The Drama Review and cofounder of the Performance Studies Department at the Tish School of the Arts at New York University. The interview was conducted in January 2017 in Richard Schechner’s office in New York, when I was freshly beginning a research about the presence of nudity on stage in the New York avant-gardes of the 60s, and fighting with my inherited clichés of nudity in this period. The main goal of the interview was understanding Schechner’s point of view on nudity as a theatre maker and theorist, but also the different functions it assumed in his theatre works.

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