Metatheatrical Dramaturgies of Violence

Staging the Role of Theatre
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-85101-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 428 g

This book examines a series of contemporary plays where writers put theatre itself on stage. The texts examined variously dramatize how theatre falls short in response to the demands of violence, expose its implication in structures of violence—including racism and gender-based violence—and illustrate how it might effectively resist violence through reconfiguring representation. Case studies, which include Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud to Present and Fairview, Ella Hickson’s The Writer and Tim Crouch’s The Author, provide a range of practice-based perspectives on the question of whether theatre is capable of accounting for and expressing the complexities of structural and interpersonal violence as both lived in the body and borne out in society. The book will appeal to scholars and artists working in the areas of violence, theatre and ethics, witnessing, memory and trauma, spectatorship and contemporary dramaturgy, as well as to those interested inboth the doubts and dreams we have about the role of theatre in the twenty-first century.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Willis, Emma

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Einzelne Theaterschauspieler & Regisseure

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Staging the Role of Theatre.- 2. Performative Violence and Self-reflexive Dramaturgy.- 3. “Touching Something Real”.- 4. The Ethics of Imagining Others.- 5. Staging Rage.- 6. Metatheatrical Dramaturgies of Reception.- 7. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Emma Willis is a senior lecturer in Drama at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research lies at the intersection of contemporary performance and dramaturgy, spectatorship and ethics and investigates the roles that theatre and theatricality play in our negotiations of subjectivity, community and responsibility in contemporary life. Recent publications include Theatricality, Dark Tourism and Ethical Spectatorship: Absent Others (2014), and journal articles and chapters variously exploring metatheatricality, acting pedagogy, kindness and shopping malls.