All the scenes of Tom Stoppard’s “Rock‘n’Roll”. The Cold War cultural front in European Theatre
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https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7483Keywords:
Rock‘n’Roll, Cold War, Scene, 1968, StoppardAbstract
Rock‘n’Roll is a text by Tom Stoppard, staged in 2006 under the direction of Trevor Nunn on the 50th anniversary of the Royal Court Theater in London. This work poses to readers and spectators the problem of the representability of the Cold War beyond a bipolar opposition between world powers and cultural models, in the context of a process recognizable above all at the edges of the systems, in those liminal spaces that often feed the identity of the nation states themselves. In 1968 Jan, a Cambridge student, decides to return to Prague, his hometown recently invaded by Russian tanks. The space-time dimension of the show is the most evident sign of a dramaturgy aimed at questioning the retrospective and individual memory of that story, where rock culture, in its political dimension, acts as a bonding agent.
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