Panel Discussion: ‘Death and Theater: Between Reality and the Stage”

Theater makers and thinkers will engage in a panel discussion around the theme of death and theater. Death is one of the most tackled and the most inspiring subjects in theater making. It will be analyzed in relation to history, media and political discourses.

The panel will address this theme under four axes: Anthropology of death and theater – The evolution of death in theater thought – Death in Arab Theater – and Death as an action on stage. The panel proposes that research around the relationship of death and theater is urgent in our present reality where political agendas impose themselves through violent exclusion and termination.

It is also of utmost importance to explore this theme in light of the permanent state of conflict we are witnessing and living; between despair and the will to live, between action and setback, between the power of political and social change, and social regression or loss of hope. Under these circumstances, media practices have crossed all limits in dealing with the values of life and death. What position does theater take today on the intellectual and philosophical levels, and with regards to its political role within society?

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