Theater in Trance

Theater in Trance (1981)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder visited for two weeks the "Theater der Welt" festival in 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.

Date of release
1981-08-20
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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