No beauty for me there where human life is rare
Since its first performances now 20 years ago Jan Lauwers’ theatre work with Needcompany has challenged the contemporary performing arts and provoked some of the best pieces of theatre criticism. No beauty for me there where human life is rare. On Jan Lauwers’ theatre work with Needcompany is the first collection of critical essays to appear about this prominent, Brussels-based but international company. It gathers texts by a variety of eminent writers working in different disciplines (theatre and performance studies, comparative literature, philosophy, cultural sociology) who take up the artistic, aesthetic and philosophical questions raised by Needcompany’s post-dramatic theatre.
RECUEIL D'ESSAIS SUR L’ŒUVRE THEATRALE DE JAN LAUWERS AVEC NEEDCOMPANY, avec des contributions de spécialistes comme Hans-Thies Lehmann, Jean-Marc Adolphe, George Banu, Nicolas Truong, Christel Stalpaert, Marvin Carlson et de nombreux autres auteurs. Ce recueil illustré de façon attrayante ravira tous ceux qui s’intéressent à la Needcompany, à son contexte artistique et aux arts de la scène en général.