Re-Membering the Demos: Dramaturgies of Facts and Affects in Contemporary Performance

Two decades into the twenty-first century, the research and the study of dramaturgy, and likewise every theatre maker, confront some grand challenges: What is the place and the potential of dramaturgy - and by extension, of theatre at large - in our contemporary, digital, globalised and ever more populist and anti-democratic world? This text is based on my inaugural lecture as Professor of Dramaturgy at Aarhus University, given at the Department of Dramaturgy and Musicology on 25 June 2019.