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L’Orestea nel nuovo millennio: il re-enactment di Milo Rau

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Abstract

This paper deals first with 20th century prominent performances and rewritings of Aeschylus’ Oresteia, focusing especially on their clear political potential: it analyses then Milo Rau’s poetics, which brilliantly combines empathy and estrangement; and finally offers a close reading of Rau’s Orestes in Mosul, which highlights the contamination between myth and reality, video and acting, classical text and political re-enactment.


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Submitted: Feb. 18, 2022 | Accepted: May 8, 2022 | Published Dec. 13, 2022 | Language: it

Keywords Re-enactment • Reception • Estrangement • Political theatre • Empathy

Copyright © 2022 Massimo Fusillo. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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