...); Rolf Bossart (photo: Marcel Jent); Ursina Lardi (photo: Urban Ruths); and Kay Sara (photo: Dyroa Baya) Forum No Longer Just Fiction Collaborators on the Work of Milo Rau Collaborative structures are key to understanding Milo Rau s theater especially for the way it creates a politics and space...

...Tom Sellar Up Front On Milo Rau Tom Sellar We hope this will be the first in a series of issues of Theater, spread over a few volumes, documenting the work of individual artists who recalibrate theatrical form to address issues of human rights and social justice. We re starting with a director...

...Piet Defraeye Piet Defraeye explores Milo Rau’s work in Central Africa, focusing on 2011’s Hate Radio and 2015’s The Congo Tribunal . Defraeye suggests that while Rau’s interest in Central Africa is not based on any personal connection, it began before the founding of his company, the International...

...Helga Kraft Helen Kraft considers director Milo Rau as an influencer. Kraft places Rau within a subcategory of influencer identified by economist and psychologist Robert Cialdini as intellectuals who are “well-connected, create an impact, have active minds, and are trendsetters.” She argues...

...Robert Walter-Jochum Robert Walter-Jochum reflects on the successes and failures of Milo Rau’s stage explorations of hate speech, investigating what Judith Butler terms “restaging and resignifying.” Walter-Jochum references two of Rau’s performances: Breivik’s Statement and Compassion: The History...

...Laurens De Vos Laurens De Vos examines the ways in which director Milo Rau incorporates the poetic and aesthetic techniques of alienation theorized and pioneered by German director Bertolt Brecht for purposes similar to but distinct from Brecht’s. Like Brecht, De Vos argues, Rau exploits...

...Peter M. Boenisch; Lise Sofie Houe Peter M. Boenisch and Lise Sofie Houe survey the 2018–20 tenure of Swiss director Milo Rau as artistic director of ntg ent, the city theater of Ghent, Belgium. Contextualizing his role and actions within the European city theater system, the authors also examine...

...Andreas Englhart Andreas Englhart examines the aesthetics of evil, particularly extreme evil, in the work of director Milo Rau, focusing on Five Easy Pieces . Englhart considers the ways in which postmodern aesthetics are beginning to turn once again toward the ethical and how this turn is both...

...Lily Climenhaga In this critical introduction, Lily Climenhaga offers an overview of the work and career of director Milo Rau. Climenhaga looks at Rau’s work across his career, beginning with early projects as a playwright working with director Simone Eisenring, through the creation of his company...

...Milo Rau; Lily Climenhaga Milo Rau s Mitleid: Die Geschichte des Maschinengewehrs, Schaubühne Berlin, 2015. Photo: Daniel Seiffert Milo Rau Edited by Lily Climenhaga from English supertitles provided by the Schaubühne Berlin Compassion: The History of t he Mac hine Gun A Theater Essay Prologue I...

...Milo Rau; Lily Climenhaga ntgent, 2020. Photo: Michiel Devijver. Courtesy of ntgent Milo Rau Translated by Lily Climenhaga What Is Unst? What Is Unst was first published on February 20, 2009, as an article in the Swiss daily Die Neue Zürcher Zeitung, where Rau had also worked as a foreign...

...Milo Rau ntgent, 2018. Photo: Michiel Devijver Milo Rau Ghent Manifesto The Ghent Manifesto was read during a livestreamed conference at ntgent on May 1, 2018, by the children from the second staging of Five Easy Pieces and simultaneously published on the theater s website. Every institution has...

...Milo Rau; Karin Barton Milo Rau s General Assembly, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin, 2017. Courtesy of iipm Milo Rau Translated by Karin Barton The Histor ic al Feel ing Excerpts In 2017, Milo Rau was a guest lecturer at Saarland University in the series Poetics of Drama (in collaboration...

...Elfriede Jelinek Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2006 Interviewed by Gitta Honegger I Am a Trümmer f rau of Language Elfriede Jelinek, Interviewed by Gitta Honegger gitta honegger How are you notified when God,” I said. I was relieved; here I was in my you...

... We are also showing a work by direc- is very nostalgic about a society that actually tor Milo Rau, who is in a way maybe the doesn’t seem to exist anymore or maybe it most conventional theater director within the shouldn’t exist anymore. context of Impulse, because he usually...

... Rittershaus Ausländer Raus! (Immigrants Out!) in a central square in Vienna, an ironic Big Brother reality-­TV – style event in which the public could vote asylum seekers out of the country. The Nobel Prize – winning Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek issued...

... Raus! (Immigrants Out!) in a central square in Vienna, an ironic Big Brother reality-­TV – style event in which the public could vote asylum seekers out of the country. The Nobel Prize – winning Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek issued a message...

... Raus! (Immigrants Out!) in a central square in Vienna, an ironic Big Brother reality-­TV – style event in which the public could vote asylum seekers out of the country. The Nobel Prize – winning Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek issued a message...

... Roy Cohn is encouraged to take toothsome bites out of the moving scenery, literally hijacking attention from the central miseries in the American century in order to make claims on a rau- cous display of sympathy for the biggest shit of them all. Here, indeed, is the rasp and unfo- cused...