Abstract / DOI
Who Sees Us, When We Suffer? About the Presence of Religion in Contemporary Theatre: Three Plays. How are religious motives processed on stages today? What changes when an everyday scene takes place in front of a portrait of Christ? With the help of productions by Romeo Castellucci, Milo Rau, and a play by Tankred Dorst, representations of the religious linking performance art and acting theatre are described. The essay focuses on effects of the real and forms of compassion between stage and audience. The religious appears as the open, as a mode of questioning that points beyond empirical evidence.