Adorno and Modern Theatre

Karoline Gritzner is Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at Aberystwyth University, UK, and a core convenor of the Performance Philosophy network. She is the co-editor with David Ian Rabey of Theatre of Catastrophe: New Essays on Howard Barker (2006), the editor of Eroticism and Theatre in Theatre and Performance (2010), and co-editor with Will Daddario of Adorno and Performance (Palgrave, 2014).

1. Prologue: 'After Auschwitz': Survival of the Aesthetic 2. Adorno and Beckett: from the Crisis of Schein to the Fidelity to Failure 3. Edward Bond and the Aesthetics of Resistance 4. David Rudkin's Theatre of Myth 5. Howard Barker's Theatre of Desire 6. Sarah Kane or how to 'scrape a life out of the ruins' Epilogue: Adorno, Tragedy, and Theatre as Negation Bibliography Index