Das geistige Feld

An essay on the existential foundations of theatre and its necessary renewal What is theatre at its core? In what ways is it unique? Do we need it, and if so, what for? What role can it play in the face of planetary crises? Fabian Scheidler counters an increasingly disembodied cyber world with a theatre that centres on the body and draws its poetic-utopian power from a spiritual field that connects spectators and actors. In doing so, he draws a wide arc from non-European theatre forms via classical modernism to the present and provides food for thought for a necessary renewal of theatre. "Fabian Scheidler takes us on a journey into our own past, without whose recollection we would hardly have any possibility of a future, of a perspective; he reminds us of our future" Roberto Ciulli.