Susanne Kennedy

For several years, Susanne Kennedy has been prominently present as a director on the German speaking stage. Her radical adaptations of canonical plays and popular films and her own creations of profoundly other counter-worlds are met with critical acclaim but also with bewilderment. To date, theatre studies has only scarcely engaged with the challenges her work poses. The present volume offers the first edited collection on Kennedy’s work. The contributions highlight both older and more recent productions and address the question how Kennedy’s aesthetics reanimate the theatre. They include detailed performance analyses to provide theatre scholars and critics with insights in the historical, dramaturgical, intermedial and technological aspects of Kennedy’s aesthetics. An artist talk with Susanne Kennedy concludes the volume.

Inhalt:
Inge Arteel, Silke Felber, Cornelis van der Haven
Susanne Kennedy’s Theatre. An Introduction

Karel Vanhaesebrouck
Transactional Love: Mannerism and Pornography in Susanne Kennedy’s Over Dieren

Cornelis van der Haven
The Enforced, Rejected and Subjecting Gaze: Baroque Frontality in Kennedy’s Staging of Fleißer’s Fegefeuer in Ingolstadt

Mathias Meert
Puppets in a Panic Room? Observations on Gesture and Pose in Susanne Kennedy’s Fegefeuer in Ingolstadt

Inge Arteel
Susanne Kennedy’s Cinematic Melodrama on Stage

Eva Döhne
Theatre as an Exercise in Dying. The Hollow Body in Exhibition

Silke Felber
Susanne Kennedy’s Women in Trouble: Troubling (Theatrical) Time

Birgit Wiens
Re-interpreting the Mask: Masking and Masquerades as an Artistic Research Practice. On Recent Theatre Projects by Susanne Kennedy

Mauricio Perussi
Drei Schwestern: How to Build Moscow’s Point of View

Janine Hauthal
The Loop as Transmedial Principle in Susanne Kennedy’s Drei Schwestern

Ulrike Haß
Becoming Something Else – Susanne Kennedy’s Theatre of Attunement

Artist talk with Susanne Kennedy

Notes on contributors


Autor:inneninformation:
Prof. Dr. Inge Arteel is full professor of German Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

PD Dr. Silke Felber is Senior Fellow at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Prof. Dr. Cornelis van der Haven is associate professor of Dutch literature at Ghent University.