Lev Kreft - Drama V Gledaliscu, Drama V Sportu (drama In Theatre, Drama In Sport )

Lev Kreft DRAMA IN THEATRE, DRAMA IN SPORT Public lecture / Free admission Cankarjev dom, M3/M4 Monday, 7 December 2009, at 19:00 Anthony D. Buckley's article “Aristotle and Cricket: Drama in Retrospect” (2006) is a continuation of a discussion initiated by F. Keenan with his text “The Athletic Contest as a ‘Tragic’ Form of Art”. Buckley concludes his contribution with the thought that “although not a work of art, a token game is likely to have an orderly unity with the form of Aristotle's 'complex drama'”. At the same time, David Osipovich addressed the question “What is a Theatrical Performance?” (2006), referring to the discussion triggered by the 2001 symposium on “Staging Interpretations” where David Z. Saltz, James R. Hamilton and Noël Carroll confronted their views on opposing interpretations and the history of the theories of theatrical performance. Opposed to interpretational theories of theatre, Osipovich claims that “the performance has its own aesthetic identity, separate from the play”. There a