Révolution quantique sur la scène britannique : quelle place pour le réalisme dans le théâtre des possibles ?
In his book Rewriting the Nation : British Theatre Today (2011), Aleks Sierz underlines the enthusiasm of the British stage of the 2000s for the creation of alternate realities and the exploration of imaginary worlds during the ‘quantum decade’ of the 2000s. The quantum revolution indeed provides co...
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| description | In his book Rewriting the Nation : British Theatre Today (2011), Aleks Sierz underlines the enthusiasm of the British stage of the 2000s for the creation of alternate realities and the exploration of imaginary worlds during the ‘quantum decade’ of the 2000s. The quantum revolution indeed provides counter-intuitive descriptions of the world which contradict our everyday perceptions and our relation to reality as we experience it. This article aims to examine how British theatre uses quantum concepts and theories to address metaphorically the limits of human knowledge and objective reality, and the necessary recourse to the imagination in interpersonal relationships. From Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen (1998) to Nick Payne’s Constellations (2012) and Simon Stephens’s Heisenberg (2015), it aims to show how the paradigm shift induced by this scientific revolution which upsets our classical conception of the laws of nature invites us to question and redefine the notion of theatrical realism within the framework of a ‘theatre of possibilities’, which takes us beyond the limits of the physical world to the edge of human consciousness, in the impenetrable worlds of the psyche. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-37f7ea60ec0e42e7bc679633ecc65d9c2022-12-22T02:29:26ZengPresses Universitaires de la MéditerranéeÉtudes Britanniques Contemporaines1168-49172271-54442019-03-015610.4000/ebc.6625Révolution quantique sur la scène britannique : quelle place pour le réalisme dans le théâtre des possibles ?Solange AyacheIn his book Rewriting the Nation : British Theatre Today (2011), Aleks Sierz underlines the enthusiasm of the British stage of the 2000s for the creation of alternate realities and the exploration of imaginary worlds during the ‘quantum decade’ of the 2000s. The quantum revolution indeed provides counter-intuitive descriptions of the world which contradict our everyday perceptions and our relation to reality as we experience it. This article aims to examine how British theatre uses quantum concepts and theories to address metaphorically the limits of human knowledge and objective reality, and the necessary recourse to the imagination in interpersonal relationships. From Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen (1998) to Nick Payne’s Constellations (2012) and Simon Stephens’s Heisenberg (2015), it aims to show how the paradigm shift induced by this scientific revolution which upsets our classical conception of the laws of nature invites us to question and redefine the notion of theatrical realism within the framework of a ‘theatre of possibilities’, which takes us beyond the limits of the physical world to the edge of human consciousness, in the impenetrable worlds of the psyche.http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/6625scientific revolutionquantum physicsquantum theatrein-yer-head theatrepostmodernismpostdramatic |
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| title | Révolution quantique sur la scène britannique : quelle place pour le réalisme dans le théâtre des possibles ? |
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| title_short | Révolution quantique sur la scène britannique : quelle place pour le réalisme dans le théâtre des possibles ? |
| title_sort | revolution quantique sur la scene britannique quelle place pour le realisme dans le theatre des possibles |
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