Eugenio Barba and the Golden Apple

Witnessing Odin Teatret's Rehearsals

Diana Cozma, Eugenio Barba

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The Choir Press
01 June 2021

Theatre: individual actors & directors; Theatre direction & production; Theatre: technical & background skills

In September-October 2010 and February-March 2011, Diana Cozma had the privilege of watching the rehearsals of The Chronic Life, directed by Eugenio Barba, in Holstebro, Denmark, when she lived at Odin Teatret's guest house. Eugenio Barba's dramaturgy is discussed in the first part of the book, The Biography of a Dramaturgical Language, while the second part, The Dramaturgy of a Spectator, based on her rehearsal diary, reveals her reflections on Barba's evocative dramaturgy and her emotional and intellectual responses to the rehearsal process. ""I feel the author's intensity in describing the actions and thoughts of the director and the actors who for years have accompanied her in her writing both in Romanian and English. I recognise the same tension, the same desire and effort that flow from a certain passionate reaction in the human being: gratitude towards the person who opened our eyes and awakened our energies. I recognise the origin of this writing, the nature of its particular style. It reminds me of my struggle with words or with the incandescence of the actors, in the attempt to cross over into that dimension of reality which forces us to go beyond what we are. It is a struggle that is constantly accompanied by the temptation to abandon and give up. Style is the luminous radiography of the darkness within us."" (excerpt from the Foreword by Eugenio Barba).

By: Diana Cozma
Foreword by: Eugenio Barba
Imprint: The Choir Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 264g
ISBN: 9781789632040
ISBN 10: 1789632048
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 01 June 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Prefazione di Eugenio Barba x; Foreword by Eugenio Barba xi; The biography of a dramaturgical language 1; The golden apple 2; The director- playwright 11; Quick reflections 30; Performances dreamed with eyes wide open 33; Youth without age and life without death 38; The dramaturgy of a spectator 41; Is the spectator the key? 42; Eyewitnessing 50; Imagine our Father 99; Welcome home! 107; The dance of eros-thanatos 113; Sensations-in-words 117; Face to face 124; In the storeroom 129; The physical-vocal island 131; The time to be humble 135; The training of self-becoming 138; Epistle to Augusto Omolu 141;To speak about freedom is always a must 142; The miracle of longevity 147; Azure 151; Bibliography 153

Author Website: http://https://odinteatret.dk/artistic-ensembles/odin-teatret/eugenio-barba/

Diana Cozma is Ph.D. associate professor habilitation at the Faculty of Theatre and Film, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca. She is an actress and an authority on the concept of dramaturgy in the theatre and has written extensively on the subject. Diana Cozma is also a translator and member of the Writers' Union of Romania.