Postdramatic Tragedies

Postdramatic Tragedies explores the history of Greek and Roman tragedy within experimental theatre from 1995-2015. In particular, the book highlights the role of tragedy within postdramatic theatre, which is a style of performance in which the traditional components of drama, such as character and narrative, are subordinate to the immediate, affective power of more abstract elements, such as image and sound. It reveals that postdramatic theatre is related to the classics at its conceptual core, and that the study of postdramatic tragedies reveals a great deal about both the evolution of theatre in recent decades, and the status of ancient drama in modernity.