Postdramatic Theatre and Postmodern Theatre: WTF? An introduction to Hans Theis Lehmann 

Your explanation is incredible, Tom. You take us to the core of the posdramatic theatre in five minutes. That's a great achivement because you are quite amusing, you a committed to the content and you're giving us a good time. Thank you so much.

Love your channel. Makes it easier to understand some terms before diving in. Appreciate it a lot! Thank you!

Thanks mate! Nice one. I've often struggled with the placement of 4.48 and Crave in the wider postdramatic categorisation. Taxonomy is of course limited, but through the process of directing 4.48 I really felt like there was something different going on. It feels more modernist than post in crucial ways, but that could just be where we took it. A text that calls for different implementations is one thing, but for each to feel absolutely necessary and inevitable is quite extraordinary.

Cool video! One thing I would like to add: I have the impression that the UK is less familiar with postdramatic theatre, partly because of its strong literary/dramatic tradition. In Holland, Belgium and Germany, however, I would say that the postdramatic theatre actually forms the basis of mainstream theatre making. Even in performances you could label as 'dramatic', you can still see a lot of postdramatic elements that Lehmann describes in his book. Very interesting (though difficult) book in my opinion, as it separates drama from theatre and expands the notion of what theatre can be. Keep up the good work! ;)

Thank you for such a great discussion, Tom. Thanks to you I have found interesting ideas that I want to follow up on. It is the nicest feeling in the world when this happens, is it not? Hope you continue making more in this series.

Fabulous. Claps to you. Hats off.

Once again, super helpful and clear video. You're a great teacher! Your students are lucky to have you :)

Thank you for the video! Clear clear and informative, I can tell you are a great teacher! You have a new subscriber!

Hi, Your videos are great and are very accessible for A-Level students. Any chance you could do a look at the theatre of the 21st century? Maybe a look at Immersive Theatre? If we are post postmodern, where are we?

Sick video well done man. Saw a brilliant production of AOHL and so helpful to hear it contextualised here

Dude you’ve helped me so much with understanding this bastard essay now

Cool video! Thank you

Thank you for this. I couldn't understand what the hell this theory was. Thank you for just explaining it as it is.

This is great content thank you

Explained really well! Thank you

Büchner's 'Woyzeck' - with its interchangeable scene-structure (left to the discretion of the director), the remarkable first act of Congreve's 'The Way of the World', Ibsen's 'When We Dead Awaken' and I would probably argue Kyd's 'The Spanish Tragedy' all flirt with various forms of dislocation which could, I suppose, satisfy the descriptor "post-dramatic". It is remarkable to realise that a playwright's structural method, as narratively linear as Ibsen's is in 'Peer Gynt', could become modified as radically, in a single lifetime, as to encompass 'When We Dead Awaken', don't you think?.

Very good primer. The movement seems to presume that the purpose of plays is to represent real life, where as I guess my own view is that they're an attempt to bring meaning to life, not merely to imitate it. Though that's not say that postdramatic theatre can't do that either.

Hi! I would love to know more names and companies that produce post-dramatic theater. Do you know more? Thanks!!

Brilliant!

Thank you so much. I was having a hard time understanding this and you just took 5 minutes to make me understand! This is awesome! A new subscriber here :D

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you look and sound like a good twin of Ramsey Snow :D thx for the lecturee

This really helped me, thanks alot!

Thank you so much for this explanation. I'm writing an essay on post-dramatic theater for school and had no idea where to start.

Great video, Tom! Looking forward to more from this series. On your point about the mimetic nature of dramatic theatre - how would you say that applies to Brecht? Or, say, Strindberg's Dream Play (or other surrealist works)? I wouldn't say that these pieces encourage the audience to believe wholly in the fictional characters. (Although, I must say, I think Brecht's 'alienation' is a bit of a failure, really. The audience always seems to empathise with Mother Courage through till the end.) Not sure whether it's right for this series or not, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on commercialism in theatre. What do you think of the West End, musicals, The Play That Goes Wrong, and the like? Is there an inherent "worthiness" in some theatre that's not present in others? People certainly seem to talk about them like they're lesser things. Or, perhaps more broadly, what is theatre for? Entertainment, social change, both, neither? Would be interesting to hear your thoughts.

So “It is what it is” is a sum up of post dramatic? 👀😂

Oh, so postdramatic theatre is basically theatre that is both antinaturalist and antirealist, thereby rejecting both empirical and rational frameworks. Gotcha. Sounds like a lot of fun.

Hi, Tom! Thank you for this video! I wish to contribute with this video... can I make you a portuguese subtitle, so I can share this with some of my colleagues? I

Mmmm wonderful conent

I can appreciate why this might seem novel. But shouldn't you make some comment as to why this isnt crap? Can you possibly tell? A good theater piece ought to have some sort of impact on the audience, rather than simply being a fucking waste of time. How is what you are describing not simply a waste of the audience's money, patience and attention? What you've described, it seems to me, by way of having no standards or value, ultimately has no value at all, unless it would be simply to draw narcissistic attention to the effort itself. Can you say something as to why this is, in any way, worth something?

So....postdramatic theater is mimetic as well! It re presents our contemporary world....hmm....

Its Hans-THIES Lehmann

Like all postmodern arts, postdramatic texts and performances are random nonsense justified through jargonised babble that people can only pretend to understand. That's the con in a nutshell, it's the same every time. Don't waste your time trying to understand any of it, just regurgitate Lehmann's terminology and switch classes.

ah thats Daniel Radcliffe