Ludics In Surrealist Theatre And Beyond

This study reconsiders surrealist theatre specifically from the perspective of ludics -- a poetics of play and games -- an ideal approach to the surrealists, whose games blur the boundaries between the 'playful' and the 'serious.' Beginning with the surrealists' 'one-into-another' game and its illustration of Breton's ludic dramatic theory, Rapti examines the traces of this kind of game in the works of a wide variety of surrealist and post-surrealist playwrights and stage directors.