Theatre Curation and Institutional Dramaturgy: Post-Representational Transformations in Flemish Theatre

With this essay, I discuss recent developments in the institutional fabric of the European state and city theatre system. I propose the perspective of ‘institutional dramaturgy’ as an analytic concept to interrogate these interventions at the systemic, rather than purely aesthetic level of theatre making. They reflect a shift towards ‘post-representational theatre’, to adopt a term coined by Nora Sternfeld, where theatre institutions no longer uncritically affirm and reiterate the cultural hegemony enshrined in the Western canon of dramatic works and its corresponding aesthetic formats, includ... Mehr ...