Staging Loss Performance as Commemoration /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Pinchbeck, Michael (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Westerside, Andrew (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Theater.; Performing arts.; Contemporary Theatre.; Performing Arts.; National/Regional Theatre and Performance.

This book locates and critically theorises an emerging field of twenty-first century theatre practice concerned, either thematically, methodologically, or formally, with acts of commemoration and the commemorative. With notions of memorial, celebration, temporality and remembrance at its heart, and...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Staging loss: an introduction
• 2. There is some corner of a Lincolnshire field...: locating commemoration in the performance of Leaving Home; Andrew Westerside
• 3. Watching with mother: 'rejourning' the wartime memories of a Wren, 1946/2016; Karen Savage and Justin Smith
• 4. Commemoration: sacred differentiation of time and space in three WWI projects; Helen Newall
• 5. Making Bolero: dramaturgies of remembrance; Michael Pinchbeck
• 6. Andrew Bovell in the History Wars: Australia's continuing cultural crisis of remembering and forgetting; Donald Pulford
• 7. After them, the flood: remembering, performance and the writing of history; Dan Ellin and Conan Lawrence
• 8. Cheers, Grandad! Third Angel's Cape Wrath and The Lad Lit Project as acts of remembrance; Alexander Kelly
• 9. On Leaving the House: the loss of self and the search for "the freedom of being" in The Wooster Group's Vieux Carré; Andrew Quick
• 10. The God, the owner & the master: staging rites of passage in the maritime crossing the line ceremony; Lisa Gaughan
• 11. Staging absence and the (un)making of memory in A Duet Without You; Chloé Déchery
• 12. Trace: shame and the art of mourning; Louie Jenkins
• 13. The performative ritual of loss: marking the intangible; Clare Parry-Jones
• 14. Searching shadows, lighting bones: commemorative performance as a radical, open-ended and ethical action; Emily Orley
• 15. Conclusion: Some words speak of events. Other words, events make us speak.