Introduction : thinking through -- Part 1. Watching. Why study drama? / Joe Kelleher -- What do performances do to spectators? / Maaike Bleeker -- How can the theatre be fully accessible? / Colette Conroy -- How does stage performance think through cultural convention? / Sean Metzger -- How does theatre represent economic systems? / Louise Owen -- Part 2. Performing. What is black dance? What can it do? / Thomas F. DeFrantz -- How does scenography think? / Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink -- How does theatre think through things? / Mike Pearson -- How does theatre think through incorporating media? / Steve Dixon -- How does the trained body think? / Broderick D.V. Chow -- How does theatre think through work? / Theron Schmidt -- Part 3. Traces. What is an intercultural exchange? / Miguel Escobar Varela -- What is the impact of theatre and performance? / Sruti Bala -- Does staging historical trauma re-enact it? / Tavia Nyong'o -- How does theatre think through politics? / Jazmin Badong Llana -- How and why are performances documented? / Heike Roms -- Part 4. Interventions. How can performance disrupt institutional spaces? / Dominic Johnson -- How does theatre think through ecology? / Carl Lavery -- How does choreography think 'through' society? / Bojana Cvejić -- How does theatricality legitimize the law? / Sophie Nield -- How does theatre think through theatricality? / Adrian Kear.
Summary:
"Thinking Through Theatre and Performance presents a bold and innovative approach to the study of theatre and performance. Instead of topics, genres, histories or theories, the book starts with the questions that theatre and performance are uniquely capable of asking: How does theatre function as a place for seeing and hearing? How do not only bodies and voices but also objects and media perform? How do memories, emotions and ideas continue to do their work when the performance is over? And how can theatre and performance intervene in social, political and environmental structures and frameworks? Written by leading international scholars, each chapter of this volume is built around a key performance example, and detailed discussions introduce the methodologies and theories that help us understand how these performances are practices of enquiry into the world. Thinking through Theatre and Performance is essential for those involved in making, enjoying, critiquing and studying theatre, and will appeal to anyone who is interested in the questions that theatre and performance ask of themselves and of us"-- Provided by publisher.
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