Of the Body and Flesh: The Animals of Romeo Castellucci

The author takes a critical stance against director Romeo Castellucci’s powerful self-narrative. Her skepticism toward Castellucci’s trademark poetic reveals the materialist dimension of his theatre, in light of which such notions as relationality, indiscernibility, simple observation, and giving ground to an animal were revitalized and led to an open, unhampered directorial discourse, in a “thinking-out-loud” style of analysis. The article joins post-anthropocentric thought inspired by Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida’s gentleness toward animals, and Deleuze’s take on the work of art in all of its relational complexity.