In Search of the Theatrical Unit of Meaning: Exploring Mnemonic by Simon McBurney

Authors

  • Ana Boariu Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania / Université de Lorraine, Metz, France

Keywords:

Simon McBurney, Mnemonic, Complicite, theatre semiotics, morpheme

Abstract

The author is searching for the theatrical unit of meaning exploring the way Simon McBurney builds up the performance in Mnemonic, a Complicite Theatre  production created for the 1999 Salzburg Festival. Inspired by headdriven phrase structure grammar and Chinese pictograms, the paper looks for verbs and  actions that define a matrix, where each element determines the complex theatrical sign. Any change of one single sign-element causes the meaning of the  whole to change.

Author Biography

Ana Boariu, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania / Université de Lorraine, Metz, France

Ana Boariu (Aka Anca Berlogea) is a theatre and film director born 1968. She is currently a PhD student  at the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj. After graduating theatre directing in Bucharest in 1994, and  theology in 1997, she finished her master degree at the Catholic Institute in Paris in 2002, with a paper  on "Memory and testimony in the Gospel of John as starting point for a theatrical representation".  Theatre and Bible remains her main research area, both at a theoretical level, and in practice. But her  practice is far larger, including journalism as well as television, documentary and film production.

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Published

2022-01-28

How to Cite

Boariu, A. (2022). In Search of the Theatrical Unit of Meaning: Exploring Mnemonic by Simon McBurney. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai - Dramatica, 62(2), 221–239. Retrieved from https://dramatica.ro/index.php/j/article/view/211

Issue

Vol. 62 No. 2 (2017): New Perspectives in Theatre History and Criticism

Section

Miscellanea

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