Postdramatic Aspects of Mark Ravenhill’s Faust is Dead and Pool (No Water)

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This study highlights new tendencies in the contemporary theatre of Ravenhill’s distinctive plays, which apply postdramatic aspects of time, space, body and media related to Hans Thies Lehmann’s work, Postdramatic Theatre (2006). Introducing the aspects of postdramatic theatre, this paper examines how Mark Ravenhill’s plays can be adopted to postdramatic conditions in contemporary theatre and how these aspects create time inconsistency, unspecified space, active bodies and mediatized culture. Considering these aspects, this paper analyses Mark Ravenhill’s plays Faust is Dead (1997) and Pool (No Water) (2006) to show how these aspects change the form and understanding of the plays. A detailed analysis, especially using postdramatic aspects of body and media, about Faust is Dead and Pool (No Water) is carried out in this paper. This analysis opposes traditional aspects in dramatic theatre of the use of non dramatical texts, performance, active body and spectators. With these distinctive plays Mark Ravenhill deconstructs conventional rules, text, language and characters

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Postdramatic Theatre , Mark Ravenhill , Faust is Dead , Pool (No Water) , Contemporary British Drama

Celal Bayar University Journal Of Social Sciences

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Celal Bayar University Journal Of Social Sciences