Author(s): Angelovska, D.
Article Тitle: FACING THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION: TIAGO
RODRIGUES’ THEATER AS SPACE OF PHILOSOPHICAL
DEBATE, POLITICAL RESISTANCE AND ARTISTIC LIBERTY
Publication Year: 2025
Publication Type: Journal Article
Article Type: Paper
Volume, Issue: 11(4)
Pages: 9-20
DOI:
ISSN (print): 1857-9299
ISSN (online): 1857-9302
UDC:УДК 792.071.2.027(469)
УДК 792.01
APA 7 citation
Angelovska, D. (2025). Facing the challenges of globalization: Tiago Rodrigues’ theater as space of philosophical debate, political resistance and artistic liberty. International Dialogue: East-West, 11(4), 9–20.
Harvard citation
Angelovska, D. (2025) ‘Facing the challenges of globalization: Tiago Rodrigues’ theater as space of philosophical debate, political resistance and artistic liberty’, International Dialogue: East-West, 11(4), pp. 9–20.
Abstract: This paper discusses the contemporary theater creations, pervaded by philosophy and literature, of the Portuguese actor, director and playwright Tiago Rodrigues (1977), one of the most prominent and innovative figures of the European theatrical landscape today, current director of the Avignon’s Theater Festival. His engaged plays, facing urgent global issues, use theater as a necessary – democratic – space for a shared philosophical, political and poetical reflection. In the era of globalization and consumerism, theater for Rodrigues becomes a space of debate and resistance, inviting spectators to become also actors of change. In our paper, we particularly consider some paradigmatic T. Rodrigues’ plays coping with key issues regarding our society in the light of globalization, such as the current rise of extreme right politics in European democracies via the example of “Catarina or the beauty of killing fascists” (2020), or the threats on books, memory and cultural heritage in the era of digital technologies, artificial intelligence and commercialization of data, via the example of “By heart” (2013). Challenging the rapid and radical transformation of the globalized world, Rodrigues stands for a theater which recalls and revives the common – and European – philosophical, literary and cultural heritage, and makes of memory/ remembrance an act of artistic and political resistance.
Keywords: globalization, philosophy, theater, Tiago Rodrigues, memory, cultural heritage, artistic resistance
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