Because softness means being careful with one’s self
“Because softness means being careful with one’s self”, an audio work by Jessica Worden, both describes and enacts an aesthetics (and ethics) of softness, vulnerability and care.
Because softness means being careful with one’s self
Interventions 28.2
Duška Radosavljević introduces this special issue of CTR Interventions on the controversial European theatre director Oliver Frljić.
Oliver Frljić interviewed by Duška Radosavljević
Oliver Frljić discusses his early encounters with the theatre in Split and Zagreb, key productions in his oeuvre, and international collaborations.
Dissensual Politics of Performance
Andrej Mirčev explores the controversy that greeted Our Violence and Your Violence (2016) when it premiered in Split, Croatia, through Jacques Rancière’s concept of dissensus.
Who’s afraid of Oliver Frljić?
Aljoscha Begrich, dramaturg at Gorki Theater Berlin, reflects on the many Frljić productions and many Frljić’s he has encountered before working on the new Gorki – Alternative für Deutschland.
Teatr Powszechny: Frljić’s theatre playground
Agnieszka Jakimiak, dramaturg on The Curse, reflects on that production and its controversy, arguing that Frljić’s work attempts to dismantle the complicity of representation with power.
What on earth is happening in Poland? On Klątwa, protest, and a new regime
Bryce Lease discusses the protests that followed the premiere of Klątwa (The Curse) in Warsaw, in the context of political transformations and firings of artistic directors in Poland.