Chapter 15 Staging Atrocity Prosecutions: Re-enactments and Pre-enactments of Atrocity Trials in Theatre

In: Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions
Authors:
Hanna Luise Kroll
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Kerstin Wilhelms
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Chapter
Pages:
309–326
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004677951_017

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Abstract

In this chapter, we examine the connection of trials in courtrooms and ‘trials’ on the theatre stage. By analysing the aesthetics of three theatre plays ranging from 1960’s documentary theatre to today’s post-dramatic genre, this chapter interrogates the theatre as an extra-juridical venue, commenting on real-life legal system and procedures. It demonstrates how re-enactments and pre-enactments of criminal trials dealing with international atrocities of the 20th and 21st centuries engage with the configuration of justice and law by involving the audience in an aesthetic judgement of accountability.

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Series:  Studies in International Criminal Law, Volume: 06
Cover Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions
E-Book ISBN:
9789004677951
Publisher:
Brill | Nijhoff
Print Publication Date:
24 Jul 2024
Front Matter
Introduction
Part 1 Shows and Cases: Showcasing(s) in the Courtroom
Part 2 Translating the Senses into Law and Judgment
Part 3 Filtering the Sensory: Language, Evidence, Culture, and Procedure
Part 4 Staging, Re-enactment, Film
Part 5 Sensibility Divides: North–South, Imperial–Colonised, State–Society
Part 6 Reflections on Aesthetics and Methods
Back Matter

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