Abstract
(One of the invited productions of the International Theatre Congress of Catalonia in Barcelona, May 19-26, 1985, was Ingmar Bergman's Swedish-language version of King Lear. Eugenio Barba, director of the International School of Theatre Anthropology, Holstebro, Denmark, and ATJ's editor were both in attendance. At the end of the congress they discussed the production in terms of Asian aesthetics and performance.) EB: Here at the congress the reaction among most critics and theatre people has been a sort of disappointment with Ingmar Bergman's production. When we talked after the play, you were the one person who seemed to share my fascination with what Bergman has done with King Lear. When we tried to explain to each other, or to formulate why this production fascinated us, we started using concepts and images from Oriental theatre.
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