CONTENT Staging Elfriede Jelinek in Australia - Preliminary Remarks

Part One: Before the Staging - The Aesthetics (or Poetics) of Staging a Play

I. The 'Poetics of an Arriving Artist' 1. Creative homesickness as a motor for cultural transfer 2. Elfriede Jelinek as an 'unknown' literary celebrity 3. From 'intertextuality' to 'palimpsest' 4. Re-framing 'relevance', re-focussing 'audience', re-naming 'actance'

Part Two: The Production The Materiality of the Performance

II. DVD 1: Princess Dramas [Full Run] 1. Credits 2. Music and video projections in order of appearance

III. DVD 2: Princess Dramas [Additional Material] 1. Track descriptions

Part Three: After the Staging - Ethics (and Politics) of Staging a Play

IV. Staging Jelinek's Princess Dramas in Australia - Dangerous Decisions and Multiple Circumstances 1. Artistic statement and ethical implications 2. Theatre as a powerful place for 'radical democracy' 3. Decisions and their context(s) - Staging Princess Dramas in Melbourne (Australia) 4. The mise-en-scène/staging or die Inszenierung 5. Ethical dangers - Violence and the right thing to do 6. Policies, subsidies and necessities

V. 'The Artist' as (Civilising) Leader or (Moral) Outlaw - The Self-Image as Theatre Maker at the Intersection of Philosophy, Law and Politics 1. Relevance as a product of self-description - From the artist as representative of a universal entity to art as a social system 2. The instability of democratic values - Self-censorship and artistic decisions

VI. A Conclusion and an Afterthought - Arriving as Palimpsestuous Process 1. Conclusion: The role of the artist in liberal democracy 2. An afterthought: Destabilising without erasing

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