Med zapeljevanjem in sumničavostjo

by Tomaž Toporišič

It derives from the thesis that the Slovenian theatre between late 50s and the end of 90s is defined by the distinct schismatical tension between textocentrism and scenocentrism. Textocentrism is the denomination for different approaches of history, phenomenology, potentiality, hegemonies and powers of the modernist and postmodern theatre text. As scenocentrism, we can label the heterogeneous and plural approaches of history, existence or hegemony of the late modernist and postmodernist postdramatic (non-verbal, physical, ambiental, action, spectacular) theatre. With the aid of a theoretic platform and its development into interpretations of precisely defined and installed historical or archeological layers of differences within the Slovenian theatre (a) from the 50s to the end of the 60s: from the primacy of contemporary dramatic writing towards the death of literary theatre, b) the 70s: theatre as a ritual and the death of literary theatre, c) the 80s: the embrace of the look and the