TALK: Fusion and Performance: Euripides, Brecht, Soyinka
Professor Joachim Fiebach
Monday, November 6 / 5:30 pm
Dramatic Arts Seminar Room, Old Gym 101C
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Particularly interested in the comparative-historical
analyses of complex interrelationships between cultural
productions and their socio-cultural contexts, Professor
Fiebach will examine Wole Soyinka's adaptations of Euripides'
The Bacchae and Brecht's Three-Penny
Opera. He will address
Soyinka's complex aesthetics, in particular the "fusion" of
traditional/African/Yoruba/"pre-modern" thought
and international avant-garde approaches and techniques
like collage.
Joachim Fiebach is Professor Emeritus of Theatre Studies
at Humboldt University in Berlin. Since the late 1960s,
he has lectured in numerous European and North American
universities and has held teaching positions at the University
of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Ife-University (Nigeria)
at the invitation of Wole Soyinka, McGill University,
Ohio State University, Columbus University and the University
of Toronto. Professor Fiebach's more recent publications
include several books on Heiner Müller, Islands
of Disorder (1990), No Hope, No Despair: Essays in Theatricality
and Theatre Arts (1998). A sampling of his over forty
year record of academic articles and essays include:
Theatre as Cultural Performance; Ethnography, Anthropology
and Performing Arts; Communication and Theatre; Traditionalist
Cultural Productions in Africa as 'Modernist' Texts and
Vice Versa; Audiovisual Media, Department Stores, and
Theatre Avant-Garde, and On Approaches to Signs in non-Islamic
Africa.
Sponsored by the IHC's Performance Studies Research
Focus Group
