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Offending the playwright: directors’ theatre and the 'Werktreue' debate

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posted on 2023-06-08, 15:16 authored by David Barnett
This chapter investigates the relationship between text and performance through the lens of ‘Werktreue’, which broadly translates as ‘faithfulness to the play’. ‘Werktreue’ emerges as an intellectually contradictory term which has little basis in the practical business of theatrical production. Theresia Walser and Rolf Hochhuth are used as case studies to examine what offended playwrights might tell us about ‘Werktreue’ in the real world of the theatre before ethical and legal questions are addressed. The chapter concludes that there is no solution to the aporias at the centre of the realisation process and that playwrights may simply have to accept this condition.

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  • Published

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Journal

German Monitor

Publisher

Rodopi

Issue

77

Page range

75-97

Pages

242.0

Book title

German text crimes: writers accused, from the 1950s to the 2000s

Place of publication

Amsterdam

ISBN

9789042036901

Series

German Monitor

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  • English Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Tom Cheesman

Legacy Posted Date

2013-06-20

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-03-22

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