Manger dans le théâtre néo-hellénique
Scenes and acts of eating as well as speech about food and culinary are very common in Greek theatre since antiquity. Modern Greek drama continues to offer a variety of similar paradigms, but from a new point of view, emphasizing social, cultural and psychological needs and changes. Plays of Maria L...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre d'Études Balkaniques
2017-03-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Balkaniques |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ceb/6162 |
| Summary: | Scenes and acts of eating as well as speech about food and culinary are very common in Greek theatre since antiquity. Modern Greek drama continues to offer a variety of similar paradigms, but from a new point of view, emphasizing social, cultural and psychological needs and changes. Plays of Maria Laïna, Akis Dimou, Vassilis Katsikonouris, Sakis Serefas enable us to study the reflections between food, feelings and memory, and to understand how “learn to cook” or “learn to eat” are synonyms to “learn about life” and “learn about themselves”. Cooking on stage and inviting the spectators to eat, as in Michael Marmarinos’ National Anthem (2001), is also associated with national identity, collective memory and political meaning. |
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| ISSN: | 0290-7402 2261-4184 |