Preface Enacting Law: The Dramaturgy of the Courtroom on the Contemporary Stage
Preface Enacting Law: The Dramaturgy of the Courtroom on the Contemporary Stage
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序言 制定法律：当代舞台上的法庭戏剧
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尽管对二十世纪戏剧法庭的历史研究很普遍，但当代表演实践中反复出现的正义主题在很大程度上仍未得到探索。然而，越来越多的二十一世纪艺术家开始依赖宫廷的结构。通过创建戏剧法庭，这些艺术家试图为替代管辖权创造一个空间。然而，当代表演艺术中这种法庭流派的明确类型仍然缺乏。因此，本文旨在描述戏剧法庭的特征。在第一部分中，我将法庭的环境描述为颁布或执行法律的戏剧场所。几位学者已经阐述了法律制度的重要的壮观方面，我将讨论法庭作为一个特定的戏剧场所的戏剧性，它有自己的场景、剧本和戏剧人物。接下来，通过分析法庭的戏剧性，我区分了法庭类型中的两类：（1）严重依赖二十世纪纪录片实践的杰出诉讼的重演；（2）对尚未举行或由于系统缺陷而无法举行的未来审判的表演性预演。最后，我研究了当代戏剧法庭如何有助于扩大公众对历史和当代不公正例子的了解，以及它们是否能够在我们的社会中获得有效的改变。
Although historical research into twentieth-century theatrical tribunals is widespread, the recurring theme of justice in contemporary performance practices remains largely unexplored. However, an increasing number of twenty-first-century artists have begun relying on structures of the court. By creating theatrical tribunals, these artists try to create a space for an alternative jurisdiction. However, a clear typology of this tribunal genre in the contemporary performing arts is still lacking. This article therefore aims to characterize theatrical tribunals. In the first section, I describe the setting of the courtroom as a theatrical place in which law gets enacted or performed. Following several scholars that already stated the important spectacular aspects of the legal system, I discuss the dramaturgy of the courtroom as a specific dramatic place with its own scenography, script, and dramatis personae. Next, by analyzing the dramaturgy of the courtroom, I distinguish two categories within the tribunal genre: (1) re-enactments of preeminent lawsuits that heavily rely on twentieth-century documentary practices and (2) performative pre-enactments of futuristic trials that have not yet been held or cannot be held because of systemic shortcomings. Finally I examine how contemporary theatrical tribunals could contribute to the enlargement of public knowledge on historical and contemporary examples of injustice, and whether they could obtain effective changes in our societies.