Iakovos Kambanellis' The Supper : Heterotopia, Intertextuality and metatheater in a modern tragic trilogy
Part of : Γράμμα : περιοδικό θεωρίας και κριτικής ; Vol.22, No.1, 2014, pages 123-141
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The aim of this paper is to throw new light on Iakovos Kambanellis' trilogy The Supper (Ό Δείπνος) by analyzing its intertextual relations to ancient Greek tragedies about the Atreid myth, by exploring its metatheatrical aspects, and by discussing its construction of theatrical space as a heterotopia. Kambanellis' trilogy is shot through with metatheatrical devices (role-play, make-believe action, references to dramatic convention) and with sustained references (explicit, oblique or cleverly distorted) to ancient Greek tragic versions of the Atreid myth. The trilogy's elaborate and sophisticated fusion of lived reality and dramatic fiction is enhanced by its construction of space as a heterotopia, a locus that is at once physically real and phantasmatic.
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