This article examines the meaning of the ‘impolitical’ regarding cases of impolitical theatre and associated critical discourse, with reference to Rodolfo Usigli and Raymond Williams, among others. It is argued that ‘impolitical’ theatre represents social relations from the standpoint of the ideal of culture. The analysis starts with Richard Schechner’s critique of the original Broadway production of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and discusses this play, segueing into The Performance Group’s Dionysus in 69. The author indicates the differences of theatre practice between the examples chosen, and shows that these theatres nevertheless participate in the same form of theatrical representation as they broach similar social questions of moment in the Unites States in the 1960s. John Yves Pinder has recently received his PhD from the University of Leeds. He is currently teaching at Leuphana University of Lüneberg.

本文研究了关于非政治戏剧案例和相关批评话语的“非政治”的含义，参考了鲁道夫·乌西格利和雷蒙德·威廉姆斯等人。有人认为，从文化理想的角度来看，“非政治”戏剧代表了社会关系。分析从理查德·谢克纳对爱德华·阿尔比的《谁害怕弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫？》的百老汇原创作品的批评开始。并讨论了这出戏，并在 69 年进入了 The Performance Group 的 Dionysus。作者指出了所选例子之间戏剧实践的差异，并表明这些剧院仍然参与相同形式的戏剧表演，因为它们在 1960 年代在美国提出了类似的社会问题。John Yves Pinder 最近获得了利兹大学的博士学位。他目前在吕讷贝格的 Leuphana 大学任教。