Justifying Theatre in Organizational Analysis: a Carnivalesque Alternative?
Journal
Consumption, Markets and Culture
ISSN
1025-3866
ISSN-Digital
1477-223X
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2006-06-01
Author(s)
Abstract
Drawing upon recent developments in "post-dramatic theatre", this article inquires how the aesthetics and art of theatre has been justified and used in the organisational context and tries to re-imagine possible relations between theatre and organisation. Referring to the simultaneously provocative and self-reflective staging of Dostojevski's "The Idiot" by the German director Castorf, we suggest to break up an all-too-easily established relationship between theatre and organisation and to demand that the "art" of theatre in organisations requires a performative demonstration that there is always an other way of organising. A carnivalesque relationship between theatre and organisation is conceived as a performative (and, hence, political) assemblage playing out hybridity, riskiness, and irony.
Language
English
Keywords
Post-Dramatic Theatre
Carnival
Riskiness
Corporate Theatre
Metaphoric Analysis
Castorf
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Routledge
Publisher place
Abingdon
Volume
9
Number
2
Start page
101
End page
109
Pages
9
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
49831