The Performative Utterance “I”: Theatricality and Subversion of Identity in the Works of Eyal Weiser

Aronson-Lehavi, Sharon

doi:10.1162/DRAM_a_00690

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December 01 2017

The Performative Utterance “I”: Theatricality and Subversion of Identity in the Works of Eyal Weiser

Sharon Aronson-Lehavi

Sharon Aronson-Lehavi is Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at Tel Aviv University and Academic Director of the TAU Theatre. She is the author of Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Gender and Feminism in Modern Theatre (Open University Press, in Hebrew, 2013), editor of Wanderers and Other Israeli Plays (Seagull Books, In Performance series, 2009), and coeditor with Atay Citron and David Zerbib of Performance Studies in Motion: International Perspectives and Practices in the Twenty-First Century (Bloomsbury, 2015).

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Sharon Aronson-Lehavi

Sharon Aronson-Lehavi is Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at Tel Aviv University and Academic Director of the TAU Theatre. She is the author of Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Gender and Feminism in Modern Theatre (Open University Press, in Hebrew, 2013), editor of Wanderers and Other Israeli Plays (Seagull Books, In Performance series, 2009), and coeditor with Atay Citron and David Zerbib of Performance Studies in Motion: International Perspectives and Practices in the Twenty-First Century (Bloomsbury, 2015).

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2017

New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TDR/The Drama Review (2017) 61 (4 (236)): 22–39.

https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_a_00690

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Israeli playwright and director Eyal Weiser challenges the language of performance by creating fictional performance artists who respond to real events in Israel. By reintroducing fiction and theatricality into the autobiographical mode of performance art, Weiser destabilizes a coherent sense of identity and underscores some of the complex issues of history and identity facing Israeli society.

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