Dramaturgies of Excess and Heterological Theatres: The Physical and Performative Space of Representation

Abstract

On performance art of the 1960s onward, particularly "the Italian theatre company Societas Raffaello Sanzio....its tradition is widely recognized these days for its use of fragmented worlds, audible sets in which artificial silences alternate with the most disturbing noises or mysterious music, and for its onstage incorporation of animals...child actors, elderly or ill actors."