PLAYING IS NOT PRETENDING

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Page Range:: 63–82

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401210393_005

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As the title of this chapter indicates, the issues raised here concern the kinds of pretence that are thought to characterize playing and acting. Contrary to Michael Kirby’s statement that ‘to act means to feign’, I will show that an actor neither can, nor wants, to pretend anything on stage. Fiction is not provided on stage but is established in the communicative act between Agent (A) and Beholder (B). Critically analyzing two texts by Bertolt Brecht on non-theatrical playing, I will argue that a number of circumstances have to be taken into consideration. The process of performing is theoretically and empirically seen as a form of playing, which allows for the distinction and communicative specification of various agents in their relation to equally specific forms of beholding. Each relationship in the public sphere between A and B constitutes a public event. This chapter searches for common ground amongst multifarious manifestations of playful behaviour, beyond various aesthetic forms and irrespective of more or less useful functions. In conclusion, playing is described as a reality-related experience: playing is always related to an event and events are never pretended.

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Playing Culture

Conventions and Extensions of Performance

丛编： Themes in Theatre, 卷： 8

ISBN:: 9789401210393

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 01 Jan 2014

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- Art History
  - Drama & Theatre Studies
- Social Sciences
  - Cultural Studies

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