Theater in Trance

Theater in Trance

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 20, 1981

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

64%

Original Title

Theater in Trance

Production Companies

Laura Film

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Description

Rainer Werner Fassbinder visits for two weeks the "Theater der Welt" festival 1981 in Cologne. 30 companies showed in over 100 performances their own visions of a new theater. Framed by Fassbinder's reading of one of the famous essays on theater: Antonin Artaud's "The Theater and its double". The audience is left to wonder how much of Artaud's radical and beautiful vision is realized in contemporary theater.