In this article Stephe Harrop combines theatre history and performance analysis with contemporary agonistic theory to re-conceptualize Greek tragedy's contested spaces as key to the political potentials of the form. She focuses on Athenian tragedy's competitive and conflictual negotiation of performance space, understood in relation to the cultural trope of the agon. Drawing on David Wiles's structuralist analysis of Greek drama, which envisages tragedy's spatial confrontations as a theatrical correlative of democratic politics, performed tragedy is here re-framed as a site of embodied contest and struggle – as agonistic spatial practice. This historical model is then applied to a recent case study, Aeschylus’ The Suppliant Women as co-produced by Actors Touring Company and the Lyceum, Edinburgh, in 2016–17, proposing that the frictious effects, encounters, and confrontations generated by this production (re-staged and re-articulated across multiple venues and contexts) exemplify some of the potentials of agonistic spatial practice in contemporary re-performance of Greek tragedy. It is contended that re-imagining tragic theatre, both ancient and modern, as (in Chantal Mouffe's terms) ‘agonistic public space’ represents an important new approach to interpreting and creatively re-imagining, interactions between Athenian tragedy and democratic politics. Stephe Harrop is a Lecturer in Drama at Liverpool Hope University, where her research focuses primarily on performances and texts adapted from, or responding to, ancient tragedy and epic. She is co-author of Greek Tragedy and the Contemporary Actor (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

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希腊悲剧、竞争空间和当代表演

在这篇文章中，斯蒂芬·哈罗普将戏剧史和表演分析与当代竞争理论相结合，将希腊悲剧的竞争空间重新概念化为形式政治潜力的关键。她专注于雅典悲剧对表演空间的竞争性和冲突性谈判，理解与方格. 借鉴大卫怀尔斯对希腊戏剧的结构主义分析，将悲剧的空间对抗设想为民主政治的戏剧关联，表演悲剧在这里被重新构建为体现竞争和斗争的场所——作为竞争性的空间实践。然后将这一历史模型应用于最近的案例研究，埃斯库罗斯的恳求的妇女由 Actors Touring Company 和爱丁堡的 Lyceum 于 2016-17 年联合制作，提出该制作产生的摩擦效果、遭遇和对抗（在多个场所和背景中重新上演和重新表达）体现了一些当代希腊悲剧重演中竞争性空间实践的潜力。有人认为，将古代和现代的悲剧戏剧重新想象为（用尚塔尔·莫菲（Chantal Mouffe）的话说）“竞争性公共空间”代表了一种重要的新方法来解释和创造性地重新想象雅典悲剧与民主政治之间的相互作用。Stephe Harrop 是利物浦希望大学的戏剧讲师，她的研究主要集中在改编自或回应古代悲剧和史诗的表演和文本上。她是合著者希腊悲剧与当代演员（帕尔格雷夫麦克米伦，即将出版）。