Jan Fabre and tg STAN: Two Models of Postdramatic Theatre in the Avant-Garde Tradition

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Notes

1. Schaamte vzw was one of the most important producers in the early 1980s, while later, arts centres such as Kaaitheater (Brussels), 't Stuc (Leuven), Vooruit (Ghent), and Monty and deSingel (Antwerp) were decisive in fostering and developing the work of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jan Lauwers, Jan Fabre and Jan Decorte.

2. Of the English-language productions, both Point Blank (1998) and Berenice (2005) were created in Lisbon, and One 2 Life (1996) in Oakland, California. The first French production by STAN was Les Antigones (2001), created in Toulouse. Currently, many of the company's productions are either created in a foreign language or performed in various languages.

3. Bertolt Brecht, ‘A Short Organum for the Theatre’, in Brecht on Theatre, ed. by John Willett (London: Methuen, 1992), pp. 179–205.

4. Hans-Thies Lehmann, Postdramatic Theatre, trans. by Karen Jürs-Munby (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2006), p. 123.

5. Ibid., p. 85.

6. Erwin Piscator, The Political Theatre, trans. by Hugh Rorrison (London: Methuen, 1980); Christopher Innes, Erwin Piscator's Political Theatre: The Development of Modern German Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972).

7. Lehmann, Postdramatic Theatre, p. 96.

8. The scripts of this trilogy, together with a DVD of each performance, have recently been published by L'Arche, Paris (2009).

9. Lehmann, Postdramatic Theatre, p. 142.

10. Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore, Jr., and Herbert Marcuse, A Critique of Pure Tolerance (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969).

11. He also refers to his method of acting, which he teaches in the training of his performers and in the many workshops he offers, as ‘biological acting’.

12. Jan Fabre, Ik ben een fout: Theaterscripts en theaterteksten 1975–2004 (Antwerpen/Amsterdam: Meulenhoff/Manteau, 2004), p. 663. Our translation.

13. Antonin Artaud, ‘Nerve-Scales’, in: Collected Works, ed. by Victor Corti (London: Calder & Boyars, 1968–1974), vol. 1, p. 74.