![]() ![]() Dramas are literary compositions that tell a story, often of human conflict, by means of dialogue and action, and are performed by actors’ in front of an audience (Turner, 1986). Dramaturgy assumes a close relationship between language and action (Burke, 1966, 1969). Focusing this lens on organizational life allows us to analyze organizations as context made up of actors playing roles on a particular stages. Both of them encourage us to look at social interaction through a theatrical lens, seeing how people dramatize and mystify everything they do in everyday life. The two main influences of dramaturgy in organizational studies are Kenneth Burke and Erving Goffman. ![]() We hope to offer a view of metatheatre that can be applied widely in the analysis of social life. We demonstrate how metatheatre mediates all these theatrics and then discuss how metatheatre operates and the implications of metatheatre for future research on the topic of organizational theatre. We then explore Enron’s context and the related theatrics. The only criteria metatheatrics must met is that it allows theatrics to continue to find a way to move (forward, backward, sideways, up, down, etc.), so that players, in our case, people in organizations, can continue to coordinate ongoing action.Īligning ourselves with dramatism and the narrative paradigm in general, we begin by reviewing theatrics and metatheatre. These two metatheatrical governed events occur simultaneously and continuously, continuing without closure in rhizomatic fashion. We think metatheatre serves both dialectic purposes, sometimes by engendering a dialectic of disintegration as well as resolving competing theatrics when metatheatre offers an antenarrative that either synthesizes theatrical dialectics or enables them to co-exist on the same stage. On the other hand, metatheatre may provide a means for competing theatrics to achieve dialectic resolution through antenarrative synthesis. We posit metatheatre can influence theatrics by dis-integrating dominant theatrics to reveal differences, and provide those competing theatrics a stage for enactment. We review briefly dramatism and theatrics and attempt to synthesize several views of metatheatre to suggest that metatheatre has the potential to govern theatrics. Source: From theatrics to metatheatre: The Enron Drama ![]() Source: Theatre, Communication, Critical Realism ![]()
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