Andrew Friedman

Bio

Andrew Friedman is Assistant Professor of Theatre History at Ball State University. He has published on contemporary performance in Europe and the US.  He is working on a book about Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller’s Ibsen-Saga and the influence of modernist thought on contemporary, experimental theatre.

Contributions

Modernist Afterlives In Performance—Inside Ibsen: Avant-Garde Institutionality and Time in Vinge/Müller’s Ibsen-Saga

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The theatre only has one chance, when it understands itself as an instrument of deceleration against the general acceleration of life, information and perception. Theatre is the Stone Age, but it can teach you how to see. —Heiner Müller [1] Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller’s performance series, the Ibsen-Saga (2006–), is an extraordinary limit case for staging Henrik Ibsen’s expansive internal temporalities. The Saga uses Ibsen’s works, in the words of Heiner Müller, as “an instrument of deceleration...

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