Madness In Contemporary British Theatre

Author : Jon Venn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030797829

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Madness in Contemporary British Theatre by Jon Venn Pdf

This book considers the representation of madness in contemporary British theatre, examining the rich relationship between performance and mental health, and questioning how theatre can potentially challenge dominant understandings of mental health. Carefully, it suggests what it means to represent madness in theatre, and the avenues through which such representations can become radical, whereby theatre can act as a site of resistance. Engaging with the heterogeneity of madness, each chapter covers different attributes and logics, including: the constitution and institutional structures of the contemporary asylum; the cultural idioms behind hallucination; the means by which suicide is apprehended and approached; how testimony of the mad person is interpreted and encountered. As a study that interrogates a wide range of British theatre across the past 30 years, and includes a theoretical interrogation of the politics of madness, this is a crucial work for any student or researcher, across disciplines, considering the politics of madness and its relationship to performance.

Author : V. Angelaki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137010131

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Contemporary British Theatre by V. Angelaki Pdf

This edited collection brings together a team of internationally prominent academics and delivers cutting-edge discourse on the strongly emerging tradition of experimentation in contemporary British theatre - redefining what the dramatic stands for today. Each chapter of the collection focuses on influential contemporary plays and playwrights.

Author : A. Harpin,J. Foster
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137337252

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Performance, Madness and Psychiatry by A. Harpin,J. Foster Pdf

This exciting collection of essays explores the complex area of madness and performance. The book spans from the 18th century to the present and unearths the overlooked history of theatre and performance in, and about, psychiatric asylums and hospitals. The book will appeal to historians, social scientists, theatre scholars, and artists alike.

Author : Leah Sidi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350283138

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Sarah Kane’s Theatre of Psychic Life by Leah Sidi Pdf

Sarah Kane was one of the landmark playwrights of 1990s Britain, her influence being felt across UK and European theatre. This is the first book to focus exclusively on Kane's unique approach to mind and mental health. It offers an important re-evaluation of her oeuvre, revealing the relationship between theatre and mind which lies at the heart of her theatrical project. Drawing on performance theory, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, this book argues that Kane's innovations generate a 'dramaturgy of psychic life', which re-shapes the encounter between stage and audience. It uses previously unseen archival material and contemporary productions to uncover the mechanics of this innovative theatre practice. Through a radically open-ended approach to dramaturgy, Kane's works offer urgent insights into mental suffering that take us beyond traditional discourses of empathy and mental health and into a profound rethinking of theatre as a mode of thought. As such, her theatre can help us to understand debates about mental suffering today.

Author : Theodore Shank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Theater
ISBN : OCLC:1148626574

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Contemporary British Theatre by Theodore Shank Pdf

Author : Anthony Neilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350200999

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The Wonderful World of Dissocia by Anthony Neilson Pdf

'Anthony Neilson's 2004 play is half a lark, half deadly serious' TIME OUT 'A profane, madcap, Alice-in-Wonderland trip morphs into something much more profound in Anthony Neilson's weirdly compelling 2004 study of mental instability' EVENING STANDARD Lisa Jones is on a journey. It's a colourful and exciting off-kilter trip in search of one lost hour that has tipped the balance of her life. The inhabitants of the wonderful world she finds herself in – Dissocia – are a curious blend of the funny, the friendly and the brutal. This Student Edition of Anthony Neilson's 2004 play, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival, features a commentary and notes by anna six. It introduces students to debates surrounding mental health and situates Neilson within a British theatrical tradition, including through an interview with him.

Author : A. Harpin,J. Foster
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137337252

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Performance, Madness and Psychiatry by A. Harpin,J. Foster Pdf

This exciting collection of essays explores the complex area of madness and performance. The book spans from the 18th century to the present and unearths the overlooked history of theatre and performance in, and about, psychiatric asylums and hospitals. The book will appeal to historians, social scientists, theatre scholars, and artists alike.

Author : Gianna Bouchard,Alex Mermikides
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781003858331

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The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine by Gianna Bouchard,Alex Mermikides Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine addresses the proliferation of practices that bridge performance and medicine in the contemporary moment. The scope of this book's broad range of chapters includes medicine and illness as the subject of drama and plays; the performativity of illness and the medical encounter; the roles and choreographies of the clinic; the use of theatrical techniques, such as simulation and role-play, in medical training; and modes of performance engaged in public health campaigns, health education projects and health-related activism. The book encompasses some of these diverse practices and discourses that emerge at the interface between medicine and performance, with a particular emphasis on practices of performance. This collection is a vital reference resource for scholars of contemporary performance; medical humanities; and the variety of interdisciplinary fields and debates around performance, medicine, health and their overlapping collaborations. Chapter 18 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 license.

Author : Femi Oyebode
Publisher : RCPsych Publications
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1908020423

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Madness at the Theatre by Femi Oyebode Pdf

Madness at the Theatre studies the theatrical representation of madness from the classical Greek period through to the 21st century. Professor Oyebode charts the portrayal of madness by the world's great playwrights across the centuries and argues that whereas acts of madness are described but unseen in Greek drama, Shakespeare brought these behaviours to centre stage. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries aberrant behaviour was portrayed in domestic settings by Ibsen - theatrical madness became a family drama. Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill drew on their own families for their explorations of madness and addiction. Pinter's masterful use of the ambiguity of language finds strong echoes in the psychiatric clinic. Soyinka emphasised the social context - the personal malady as reflection of a greater malaise in society. Finally, Sarah Kane created plays that were the physical embodiment of her inner world. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the language of drama, the depiction of mental illness, and in the wider place of madness as a concept within society.

Author : Jen Harvie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0719062136

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Staging the UK by Jen Harvie Pdf

This text examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. It considers contemporary British theatre in relation to national and supranational identities, critical concepts like globalisation and diaspora, and contemporary contexts such as the election of New Labour.

Author : Vicky Angelaki
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474213165

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Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain by Vicky Angelaki Pdf

In a context of financial crisis that has often produced a feeling of identity crisis for the individual, the theatre has provided a unifying forum, treating spectators as citizens. This book critically deals with representative plays and playwrights who have stood out in the UK and internationally in the post-recession era, delivering theatre that in the process of being truthful to the contemporary experience has also redefined theatrical form and content. Built around a series of case-studies of seminal contemporary plays exploring issues of social and political crisis, the volume is augmented by interviews with UK and international directors, artistic directors and the playwrights whose work is examined. As well as considering UK stage productions, Angelaki analyses European, North American and Australian productions, of post-2000 plays by writers including: Caryl Churchill, Mike Bartlett, Dennis Kelly, Simon Stephens, Martin Crimp, debbie tucker green, Duncan Macmillan, Nick Payne and Lucy Prebble. At the heart of the analysis and of the plays discussed is an appreciation of what interconnects artists and audiences, enabling the kind of mutual recognition that fosters the feeling of collectivity. As the book argues, this is the state whereby the theatre meets its social imperative by eradicating the distance between stage and spectator and creating a genuinely shared space of ideas and dialogue, taking on topics including the economy, materialism, debt culture, the environment, urban protest, social media and mental health. Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain demonstrates that such contemporary playwriting invests in and engenders moments of performative reciprocity and spirituality so as to present the audience with a cohesive collective experience.

Author : T. Shank
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996-11-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781349250912

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Contemporary British Theatre by T. Shank Pdf

Contemporary British Theatre surveys the complex and dynamic theatre of the eighties and early nineties reflecting a country that is multicultural, multiethnic and multinational. The contributors - artists, scholars and critics - offer insights into the unique forms of theatre performance devised to express the tensions and pressures of our time. For the paperback edition a new preface has been written, including several updating pieces from individual contributors.

Author : Catherine Rees
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137610294

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Contemporary British Drama by Catherine Rees Pdf

This guide offers a comprehensive account of British theatre from the 1960s to the present day. Placing critical commentary at the heart of its analysis, it explores how theatre critics and scholars have sought to understand and write about modern theatre, from the earliest reviews to revivals appearing decades later. With studies of contemporary reviews and archival material, Contemporary British Drama offers readers the opportunity to learn about British theatre in its original context and to chart shifting critical perceptions over the decades. It provides a crucial juxtaposition between the development of British theatre and its contemporaneous critical response, supplying an invaluable insight into the critical climate of recent decades. From feminist playwrighting to In-Yer-Face theatre, this is the ideal companion for undergraduate students of literature and theatre in need of an introduction to the debates surrounding contemporary British drama.

Author : Mary Brewer,Lynette Goddard,Deirdre Osborne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137506290

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Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama by Mary Brewer,Lynette Goddard,Deirdre Osborne Pdf

This indispensable overview of modern black British drama spans seven decades of distinctive playwriting from the 1950s to the present. Interweaving social and cultural context with close critical analysis of key dramatists' plays, leading scholars explore how these dramatists have created an enduring, transformative and diverse cultural presence.

Author : Hersh Zeifman,Cynthia Zimmerman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349108190

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Contemporary British Drama, 1970–90 by Hersh Zeifman,Cynthia Zimmerman Pdf

This book focuses exclusively on the exciting and provocative plays produced in England in the last two decades. The primary aim of the collection is to celebrate the truly remarkable range of British drama since 1970, by examining the work of fourteen important and representative playwrights. This emphasis on range applies not only to the dramatists chosen for inclusion but to the critics as well - specifically to the diversity of critical methodology demonstrated in their essays.