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FOREWORD TO THE SLOVENIAN EDITION

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE

PROLOGUE

DRAMA
Drama and theatre
Drama and dialectics

PREHISTORIES
On the prehistory of postdramatic theatre
Brief overview of the historical avantgarde

PANORAMA OF POSTDRAMATIC THEATRE
Beyond the act: ritual, spatial voices, landscape
Postdramatic theatre signs
Beyond illusion
Examples

PERFORMAN ART
Theatre and performance art
The present of performance art

TEXT
Text, language, speech
Text, voice, subject

SPACE
Dramatic and postdramatic space
Postdramatic spatial aesthetics: overview

TIME
Problems of theatre time
Postdramatic time aesthetics
theatre and memory
Excursus on unity of time

BODY
Postdramatic images of bodies

MEDIAS
Theatre ± media
Media in postdramatic theatre
Representation and “representability”

EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX
AFTERWORD by Aldo Milohnić: Performative cut of postdramatic theatre
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