Rethinking Character In Contemporary British Theatre

Author : Cristina Delgado-García
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110333916

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Rethinking Character in Contemporary British Theatre by Cristina Delgado-García Pdf

The category of theatrical character has been swiftly dismissed in the academic reception of no-longer-dramatic texts and performances. However, claims on the dissolution of character narrowly demarcate what a subject is and how it may appear. This volume unmoors theatre scholarship from the regulatory ideals of liberal humanism, stretching the notion of character to encompass and illuminate otherwise unaccounted-for subjects, aesthetic strategies and political gestures in recent theatre works. To this aim, contemporary philosophical theories of subjectivation, European theatre studies, and experimental, script-led work produced in Britain since the late 1990s are mobilised as discussants on the question of subjectivity. Four contemporary playtexts and their performances are examined in depth: Sarah Kane’s Crave and 4.48 Psychosis, Ed Thomas’s Stone City Blue and Tim Crouch’s ENGLAND. Through these case studies, Delgado-García demonstrates alternative ways of engaging theoretically with character, and elucidating a range of subjective figures beyond identity and individuality. Alongside these analyses, the book traces a large body of work that has experimented with speech attribution since the early twentieth-century. This is a timely contribution to contemporary theatre scholarship, which demonstrates that character remains a malleable and politically-salient notion in which understandings of subjectivity are still being negotiated.

Author : V. Angelaki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-25
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 : Vicky Angelaki
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031548925

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Staging Interspaces in Contemporary British Theatre by Vicky Angelaki Pdf

Author : David Clare,Fiona McDonagh,Justine Nakase
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800859470

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The Golden Thread by David Clare,Fiona McDonagh,Justine Nakase Pdf

This two-volume edited collection illuminates the valuable counter-canon of Irish women's playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and practitioners. Covering three hundred years of Irish theatre history from 1716 to 2016, it is the most comprehensive study of plays written by Irish women to date. These short essays provide both a valuable introduction and innovative analysis of key playtexts, bringing renewed attention to scripts and writers that continue to be under-represented in theatre criticism and performance. Volume Two contains chapters focused on plays by sixteen Irish women playwrights produced between 1992 and 2016, highlighting the explosion of new work by contemporary writers. The plays in this volume explore women's experiences at the intersections of class, sexuality, disability, and ethnicity, pushing at the boundaries of how we define not only Irish theatre, but Irish identity more broadly.

Author : Mireia Aragay,Cristina Delgado-García,Martin Middeke
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030584863

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Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre by Mireia Aragay,Cristina Delgado-García,Martin Middeke Pdf

This book explores the various manifestations of affects in British theatre of the 21st century. The introduction gives a concise survey of existing and emerging theoretical and research trends and argues in favour of a capacious understanding of affects that mediates between more autonomous and more social approaches. The twelve chapters in the collection investigate major works in Britain by playwrights and theatre makers including Mojisola Adebayo, Mike Bartlett, Alice Birch, Caryl Churchill, Tim Crouch and Andy Smith, Rachel De-lahay, Reginald Edmund, James Fritz, David Greig, Idris Goodwin, Zinnie Harris, Kieran Hurley, Lucy Kirkwood, Anders Lustgarten, Yolanda Mercy, Anthony Neilson, Lucy Prebble, Sh!t Theatre, Penelope Skinner, Stef Smith, Kae Tempest and debbie tucker green. The interpretations identify significant areas of tension as they relate affects to the fields of cognition, politics and hope. In this, the chapters uncover interrelations of thought, intention and empathy; they reveal the nexus between identities, institutions and ideology; and, finally, they explore how theatre can accomplish the transition from a sense of crisis to utopian visions.

Author : Mireia Aragay,Martin Middeke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110548716

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Of Precariousness by Mireia Aragay,Martin Middeke Pdf

Drawing primarily on Judith Butler’s, Jacques Derrida’s, Emmanuel Levinas’s and Jean-Luc Nancy’s reflections on precariousness/precarity, the Self and the Other, ethical responsibility/obligation, forgiveness, hos(ti)pitality and community, the essays in this volume examine the various ways in which contemporary British drama and theatre engage with ‘the precarious’. Crucially, what emerges from the discussion of a wide range of plays – including Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, Caryl Churchill’s Here We Go, Martin Crimp’s Fewer Emergencies and In the Republic of Happiness, Tim Crouch’s The Author, Forced Entertainment’s Tomorrow’s Parties, David Greig’s The American Pilot and The Events, Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money, Mark Ravenhill’s Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat, Philip Ridley’s Mercury Fur, Robin Soans’s Talking to Terrorists, Simon Stephens’s Pornography, theTheatre Uncut project, debbie tucker green’s dirty butterfly and Laura Wade’s Posh – is the observation that contemporary (British) drama and theatre often realises its thematic and formal/structural potential to the full precisely by reflecting upon the category and the episteme of precariousness, and deliberately turning audience members into active participants in the process of negotiating ethical agency.

Author : Siân Adiseshiah,Jacqueline Bolton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030345815

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debbie tucker green by Siân Adiseshiah,Jacqueline Bolton Pdf

This long-awaited book is the first full-length study of the work of the extraordinary contemporary black British playwright, debbie tucker green. Covering the period from 2000 (Two Women) to 2017 (a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun)), it offers scholars and students the opportunity to engage in cutting-edge critical debate engendered by tucker green’s innovative dramatic works for stage, television, and radio. This groundbreaking book includes contributions by a range of outstanding scholars, including black playwriting specialists, world-leading contemporary theatre scholars and some of the very best emerging researchers in the field. While always focused on the precision and detail of tucker green’s work, this book simultaneously reframes broader debates around contemporary drama and its politics, poses new questions of theatre, and provokes scholarly thinking in ways that, however obliquely, contribute to the change for which the plays agitate.

Author : Verónica Rodríguez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030061821

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David Greig’s Holed Theatre by Verónica Rodríguez Pdf

With a Foreword by Dan Rebellato, this book offers up a detailed exploration of Scottish playwright David Greig’s work with particular attention to globalization, ethics, and the spectator. It makes the argument that Greig’s theatre works by undoing, cracking, or breaking apart myriad elements to reveal the holed, porous nature of all things. Starting with a discussion of Greig’s engagement with shamanism and arguing for holed theatre as a response to globalization, for Greig’s works’ politics of aesthethics, and for the holed spectator as part of an affective ecology of transfers, this book discusses some of Greig’s most representative political theatre from Europe (1994) to The Events (2013), concluding with an exploration of Greig’s theatre’s world-forming quality.

Author : Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108476522

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The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science by Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr Pdf

The first ever companion to theatre and science brings together research on key topics, performances, and new areas of interest.

Author : Catherine Love
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000839784

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Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre by Catherine Love Pdf

Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre interrogates the paradoxical nature of theatre texts, which have been understood both as separate literary objects in their own right and as material for performance. Drawing on analysis of contemporary practitioners who are working creatively with text, the book re-examines the relationship between text and performance within the specific context of British theatre. The chapters discuss a wide range of theatre-makers creating work in the UK from the 1990s onwards, from playwrights like Tim Crouch and Jasmine Lee-Jones to companies including Action Hero and RashDash. In doing so, the book addresses issues such as theatrical authorship, artistic intention, and the apparent incompleteness of plays as both written and performed phenomena. Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre also explores the implications of changing technologies of page and stage, analysing the impact of recent developments in theatre-making, editing, and publishing on the status of the theatre text. Written for scholars, students, and practitioners alike, Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre provides an original perspective on one of the most enduring problems to occupy theatre practice and scholarship.

Author : Cyrielle Garson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110715767

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Beyond Documentary Realism by Cyrielle Garson Pdf

Verbatim theatre, a type of performance based on actual words spoken by ''real people'', has been at the heart of a remarkable and unexpected renaissance of the genre in Great Britain since the mid-nineties. The central aim of the book is to critically explore and account for the relationship between contemporary British verbatim theatre and realism whilst questioning the much-debated mediation of the real in theses theatre practices.

Author : Clare Wallace,Clara Escoda,Enric Monforte,José Ramón Prado-Pérez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350180871

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Crisis, Representation and Resilience by Clare Wallace,Clara Escoda,Enric Monforte,José Ramón Prado-Pérez Pdf

A collection of incisive investigations into the ways that 21st-century British theatre works with - and through - crisis. It pays particular attention to the way in which writers and practitioners consider the ethical and social challenges of crisis. Anchored in an interdisciplinary approach that draws from sociology, cultural theory, feminism, performance and philosophy, the book brings multi-faceted ideas into dialogue with the diverse aesthetics, practices and themes of a range of theatrical work produced in Britain since 2005. Topics discussed include: Ageing Austerity Gender Migrancy Multiculturalism Aesthetics Companies discussed include: Theatre Uncut Lost Dog Camden People's People Lung Brighton People's Theatre Phosphoros Theatre Playwrights discussed include: Jez Butterworth Caryl Churchill Tim Crouch Vivienne Franzmann James Graham debbie tucker green Ella Hickson Charlene James Lucy Kirkwood Simon Longman Cordelia Lynn Simon Stephens Jack Thorne Chris Thorpe Gloria Williams Building on recent publications in the area and engaging in dialogue with them, Crisis, Representation and Resilience considers how crisis is being re-thought and re-orientated through theatrical performance and the ways theatre invites us to respond to the many challenges of the contemporary times.

Author : T. Shank
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Liz Tomlin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474295611

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Political Dramaturgies and Theatre Spectatorship by Liz Tomlin Pdf

What do we mean when we describe theatre as political today? How might theatre-makers' provocations for change need to be differently designed when addressing the precarious spectator-subject of twenty- first century neoliberalism? In this important study Liz Tomlin interrogates the influential theories of Jacques Rancière to propose a new framework of analysis through which contemporary political dramaturgies can be investigated. Drawing, in particular, on Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Lilie Chouliaraki and Judith Butler, Tomlin argues that the capacities of the contemporary and future spectator to be 'effected' or 'affected' by politically-engaged theatre need to be urgently re-evaluated. Central to this study is Tomlin's theorized figuration of the neoliberal spectator-subject as precarious, individualized and ironic, with a reduced capacity for empathy, agency and the ability to imagine better futures. This, in turn, leads to a predilection for a response to injustice that is driven by a concern for the feelings of the subject-self, rather than concern for the suffering other. These characteristics are argued to shape even those spectator-subjects towards the left of the political spectrum, thus necessitating a careful reconsideration of new and long-standing dramaturgies of political provocation. Dramaturgies examined include the ironic invitations of Made in China and Martin Crimp, the exploration of affect in Kieran Hurley's Heads Up, the new sincerity that characterizes the work of Andy Smith, the turn to the staging of the spectators' 'other' in Developing Artists' Queens of Syria and Chris Thorpe and Rachel Chavkin's Confirmation, and the community activism of Common Wealth's The Deal Versus the People.

Author : M. Aragay,E. Monforte
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137297570

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Ethical Speculations in Contemporary British Theatre by M. Aragay,E. Monforte Pdf

This volume is the first to offer a comprehensive critical examination of the intersections between contemporary ethical thought and post-1989 British playwriting. Its coverage of a large number of plays and playwrights, international range of contributors and original argumentation make it a key point of reference for students and researchers.