ABSTRACT
From their respective professional perspectives, philosophy professor Emmanuel Alloa and theatre dramaturg Sophie-Thérése Krempl discuss the historical ins and outs and the contemporary significance of the at times tempestuous but always intimately charged relationship between philosophy and theatre. Touching on the “performative turn” in philosophy and an analogous “conceptual turn” in the performing arts, together they ponder the aesthetic, social and political implications of this passionate and querulous relationship with a particular focus on the effects of (and on) post-dramatic theatre and theory. Their discussion includes a wide range of philosophical and theatrical references from Aristotle to Deleuze (via Kant, Nietzsche and Heidegger) and from Shakespeare to Jelinek (via Tadeusz Kantor, Jan Fabre, The Wooster Group and Romeo Castellucci) and many more.
