Pinchbeck, Michael and Westerside, Andrew, eds. (2018) Staging Loss: Performance as Commemoration. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783319979694
Full content URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97970-0
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Item Type: | Book or Monograph |
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Item Status: | Live Archive |
Abstract
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 as a timely topic for debate, this book asks how theatre and performance intersects with commemorative acts or rituals in contemporary theatre and performance practice. It considers the (re)performance of history, commemoration as a form of, or performance of, ritual, performance as memorial, performance as eulogy and eulogy as performance.
It asks where personal acts of remembrance merge with public or political acts of remembrance, where the boundary between the commemorative and the performative might lie, and how it might be blurred, broken or questioned. It explores how we might remake the past in the present, to consider not just how performance commemorates but how commemoration performs.
Keywords: | Theatre, Performance, Performance Studies, Commemoration, Heritage, WWI, WWII, Memorial |
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Subjects: | W Creative Arts and Design > W440 Theatre studies |
Divisions: | College of Arts > School of Fine & Performing Arts > School of Fine & Performing Arts (Performing Arts) |
ID Code: | 34252 |
Deposited On: | 19 Nov 2018 16:08 |
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