The contemporary post-truth environment imposes limitations and ethical consid erations upon the political theatre-maker’s ability to highlight political leaders’ exceptional acts of deception. By unpacking and applying Giorgio Agamben’s writing on the State of Exception to post-truth political performances, Alex D. Wilson discusses in this article how political deception is an exceptional act of sovereign power and how the state of exception is an inherently performative phenomenon. The inherent challenges this state of affairs presents to the theatre are discussed with particular reference to David Hare’s Stuff Happens (2004), which, it is argued, falls into its own state of exception in terms of its approach to truth. Alex D. Wilson is a PhD candidate in Theatre Studies at the University of Otago, who recently completed an MA which explored ethical authorship of British theatrical work produced in response to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. He is the artistic director of Arcade, a Dunedin-based performing arts company.

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例外与规则：后真相时代的阿甘本、事情的发生和表征

当代的后真相环境对政治戏剧制作者强调政治领导人特殊欺骗行为的能力施加了限制和道德考量。通过将乔治·阿甘本 (Giorgio Agamben) 关于例外状态的著作拆解并应用到后真相的政治表演中，亚历克斯·D·威尔逊 (Alex D. Wilson) 在本文中讨论了政治欺骗如何是主权权力的一种特殊行为，以及例外状态如何是一种内在的表演现象。讨论了这种事态给剧院带来的内在挑战，特别参考了大卫·黑尔的事情发生了（2004），有人认为，就其对真理的态度而言，它属于自己的例外状态。亚历克斯·D·威尔逊 (Alex D. Wilson) 是奥塔哥大学戏剧研究专业的博士生，他最近完成了硕士学位，该硕士学位探讨了为应对 2003 年入侵伊拉克而制作的英国戏剧作品的伦理作者身份。他是位于但尼丁的表演艺术公司 Arcade 的艺术总监。