{"title":"And of Clay We Are Created","authors":"Ali-Reza Mirsajadi","doi":"10.1017/S1054204322000284","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Iranian theatre director Zahra Sabri’s dramaturgy layers performers and puppets, puppets and puppeteers, collapsing distinctions between the inanimate and the animate in ways that allow spectators more freedom to interpret her work. Her 2012 Count to One enacts the creation, animation, and destruction of clay puppets while telling a story of three soldiers who refuse to follow orders to bomb a foreign city.","PeriodicalId":46402,"journal":{"name":"TDR-The Drama Review-The Journal of Performance Studies","volume":"66 1","pages":"38 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"TDR-The Drama Review-The Journal of Performance Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1054204322000284","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"THEATER","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Iranian theatre director Zahra Sabri’s dramaturgy layers performers and puppets, puppets and puppeteers, collapsing distinctions between the inanimate and the animate in ways that allow spectators more freedom to interpret her work. Her 2012 Count to One enacts the creation, animation, and destruction of clay puppets while telling a story of three soldiers who refuse to follow orders to bomb a foreign city.
期刊介绍:
TDR traces the broad spectrum of performances, studying performances in their aesthetic, social, economic, and political contexts. With an emphasis on experimental, avant-garde, intercultural, and interdisciplinary performance, TDR covers performance art, theatre, dance, music, visual art, popular entertainments, media, sports, rituals, and the performance in and of politics and everyday life. Each fully illustrated issue includes: -Articles on theatre, dance, popular entertainments, rituals, politics, and social life: the whole broad spectrum of performance -Original contributions to performance theory -Editorial comments, critical analysis, and book reviews -Articles by social scientists, cultural commentators, theorists, artists, scholars, and critics -Interviews with performers, choreographers, directors, composers, and performance artists -Texts of performance works -Translations of important new and decisive archival writings on performance