Acting Presence as an Avant-Garde Experiment in Selected Performances of the Szentkirályi Theatre Workshop

Székely, Rozália (2025) Acting Presence as an Avant-Garde Experiment in Selected Performances of the Szentkirályi Theatre Workshop. THEATRON: SZÍNHÁZTUDOMÁNYI PERIODIKA, 19 (4). pp. 31-40. ISSN 1418-9941

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Abstract

The article examines selected performances of the Szentkirályi Theatre Workshop through the concepts of acting presence and stage present time. The analysis focuses on performances built from real family relationships, personal biographical material, and shared presence, involving professional actors, amateurs, civilians, children, and animals. The intertwining of theatrical and performative elements, together with fragmented dramaturgy and indeterminacy, creates a mode of spectatorship in which presence functions as the primary medium of transmission. Drawing on John Keats’s concept of “negative capability,” as well as theories of autobiography and autofiction, the study interprets these performances as open, non-linear structures that foreground lived presence over narrative coherence.

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