ArteActa 2024, 11:47-66 | DOI: 10.62804/aa.2024.005

Aesthetic Exception within the Politics of the Impasse: Interview with Tony Fisher

Alice Koubová
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Tony Fisher is Professor of Theatre, Politics, and Aesthetics at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He has a long-standing interest in the relationship between the arts, theatre in particular, and politics and political power, both historically and in contemporary socio-political contexts. He presents this relationship as a complex and intricate interdependence, often characterised by conflict, ambiguity, and dead ends. An important theme for him is democracy and the role of art in its reflection and realisation.

Keywords: Thatcherism, Wooster Group, Blitz Theatre Group, theatre of the impasse, The Aesthetic Exception

Published: September 18, 2024  Show citation

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Koubová, A. (2024). Aesthetic Exception within the Politics of the Impasse: Interview with Tony Fisher. ArteActa, 7(11), 47-66. doi: 10.62804/aa.2024.005
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