The word in the face of death: the treatment of the traumatic legacy in Anagoor’s “Oresteia”

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i5.8759
Keywords: Anagoor, Oresteia, montage, theatre of memory, aesthetics of the fragment

Abstract

Anagoor revisits in 2018 the myth of the Oresteia. Faithful to its aesthetics, the company treats the transmission of pain and the feeling of revenge that affect, as a fatal inheritance, the younger generations of the house of the Atrides. The traumatic inheritance is declined on stage following three vectors: the word, the use of bodies and the overlapping of imagery on stage. This contribution tries to show how the aesthetics of the fragment and the use of montage are not only the compositional principles of the contemporary trilogy, but also a possible poetic suggestion for overcoming the trauma of loss.

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Author Biography

Silvia De Min, Sorbonne Université

Silvia De Min is currently ATER at Sorbonne University in Paris. She is the author of three monographs: a book dedicated to the study of theatrical stage directions (Leggere le didascalie: narrazione, commento, immaginazione nella drammaturgia moderna, Bologna, Archetipolibri, 2013), a volume dedicated to the theatrical company Anagoor (Decapitare la Gorgone. Ostensione dell’immagine e della parola nel teatro di Anagoor, Pisa, Titivillus, 2016) and a a theoretical study on the links between ekphrasis and performances (Ekphrasis in scena. Per una teoria della figurazione teatrale, Mimesis, 2017). His research currently concerns the relationship between theatre and the visual arts from the 17th century.

Published
2021-12-20
How to Cite
De MinS. (2021). The word in the face of death: the treatment of the traumatic legacy in Anagoor’s “Oresteia”. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (5), 165-189. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i5.8759
Issue
No 5 (2021): Historical event, collective trauma and spatiality in contemporary literature and arts
Section
Sezione monografica

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