“Every era has the theatre it deserves”, Esther Slevogt points out.
I think we deserve a new form of political theatre —one that remembers its imaginary power and actually uses the means of theatre to engage citizens, not one that stands still in the ever same reproduction of pseudo-legal trials.
Daria Bayer
Milo Rau turned tribunals into theatre. Now his own moral judgement is on trial
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The Swiss director has staged court cases against Pussy Riot, mining companies in Congo and Gisèle Pelicot’s abusers. But after his invitation to tech billionaire Peter Thiel caused a scandal in Vienna, is Rau’s method eating itself?
