Interrogare il visibile in Phaedra’s Love: la sperimentazione di Sarah Kane tra drammaturgia e regia

Abstract

This paper analyzes the theatre aesthetics of Sarah Kane, considerable dramatist of the theatre new wave known as In-yer-face theatre, moving from playwriting and staging of her second drama, Phaedra’s Love, to discuss her experimental dramaturgy, in particular, in relation to the representation of violence on the stage and the connection between audience and performance. The article develops an interpretation of this theatre aesthetics characterized by a new and essential stage ritual through the representation of Hippolytus’ dismembered body.