Reconsidering Surrealist Drama: The Case of Nanos Valaoritis' Round Tables.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Rapti, Vassiliki
- Source
- Text & Presentation: Journal of the Comparative Drama Conference; Apr2004, Vol. 25, p110-118, 9p
- Subject
- Language
- ISSN
- 1054724X
Focuses on Nanos Valaoritis' play "Round Tables," which is marked by a ludic spirit of surrealism and offers a solid corpus for reconsidering the poetics of Surrealist theater in the context of ludics. Argument that Valaoritis experimented with surrealist games in terms of both theme and form for two reasons, to prove to Andre Breton that surrealist theater could exist without betraying the principles of Surrealism and to show that the logic of surrealist games may lead to a fruitful reconsideration of surrealist theater.