Conclusion

Abstract

Through the course of Performing Statelessness in Europe, we have seen a variety of strategies for addressing problems of immigration and dispossession. Some of the theatre artists represented in this book have used ancient Greek theatre as a means for exposing the gap between ancient Greek ethics and the recent reception of refugees. Others have employed fictive identification, documentary drama, immersive theatre, dissensus, cross-identification, subversive identification and over-identification, and nomadism as means to inform and persuade audiences. Some have proposed utopian ideas, others realistic solutions, while others still have simply identified problems and raised questions. The selection of case studies is by no means exhaustive as it would be impossible to consider performative events in all the countries in Europe in their various languages. This book has only given an indication of some of the types performed and some of the strategies employed.