The Geopolitics of European Theater: Tom Stoppard, David Edgar, Harold Pinter

• Brigitte Gauthier ^[1]
  1. [1] SCRIPT, University of Evry
• Localización: De fronteres i arts escèniques / coord. por Núria Santamaria, Francesc Foguet i Boreu, 2015, ISBN 978-84-943779-0-7, págs. 131-145
• Idioma: inglés
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  • British theatre has dedicated some of its major works to the analysis of the notion of frontier within Europe. Borders between sanity and madness have been used as a starting point for reflection in Every Good Boy Deserves Favor (1977) by Tom Stoppard, the flux of people deprived of identity thrown from one country to the other was the focus of Pentecost (1994) by David Edgar and Harold Pinter himself used the non-description of geographical locations to erase our concept of geopolitical frontiers so as to make us reflect on the consequences of false frontiers, and on the use of these artificial walls to determine our destinies. Walls of languages, carceral walls, and virtual walls will be analysed in their polemical use on stage by these three major British dramatists.