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MAKING IT REAL? THEATRE IN TIMES OF VIRTUAL WARFARE1
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The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
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April 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Spring 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Compared to fiction or film, theatre tends to react fairly swiftly to contemporary geopolitical crises such as the wars in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq,2 for instance, by alluding to them in the mise-en-scène of a production or by promptly reviving classic war dramas such as The Persians, Lysistrata, and The Trojan Women? And yet, there have been few attempts to turn these contemporary wars into what Brecht has called "die groBen Gegenstà nde"-the great discourses of theatre. This hesitancy to present the experience of war in other than personal terms, to think through them historically, economically, and culturally could be attributed to the fact that these wars are too recent (or ...
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