A Non-Aristotelian Model: Time as Space and Landscapein Postmodern Theatre

摘要

In his Poetics, Aristotle articulated certain ideas on the structure of drama thatdominated both dramatic literature and theatre practices for the centuries to come. In thisarticle I show how the thorough analysis of his statements leads us to believe that he endorsescausality, narrativity, and temporal linearity as primary factors in the organization of dramaticand stage texts. Tracing various modifications of causality throughout theatre history, I usethe work of the two prominent contemporary directors, Eimuntas Nekrosius and AnatolyVasilyev, to demonstrate how postmodernist theatre has arrived at non-Aristotelian theatricalmodel based on the unity of a time–space continuum rather than temporal development.