Jenn Stephenson

Insecurity

Perils and Products of Theatres of the Real

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Insecurity: Perils and Products of Theatres of the Real begins with the premise that although the inclusion of real objects and real words on the stage would ostensibly seem to increase the epistemological security and documentary truth-value of the presentation, in fact the opposite is the case.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781487501853
• ISBN-10: 1487501854
• Artikelnr.: 54615464

Autorenporträt

Jenn Stephenson is Professor in the Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen’s University. Her book Performing Autobiography: Contemporary Canadian Drama is also published by University of Toronto Press.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Real People Part 1: Winning and/or losing the game of life in
autobiographical performance-Winners and Losers
3. Real People Part 2: Insecurity and ethical failure in the encounter with
stranger-100% Vancouver, RARE, and Polyglotte
4. Real Words: Reproducing life in remediated verbatim theatre-Seeds and
300 TAPES
5. Real Space: The insecure geographies of site-specific audio walks-
Garden/ /Suburbia and Landline
6. Real Bodies Part 1: The traumatic real in immersive performances of
political crisis and insecurity-Counting Sheep and Foreign Radical
7. Real Bodies Part 2: Narcissistic spectatorship in theatrical "haunted
houses" of solo immersive performance-Everyman
8. Coda: Theatres of the real in the age of post-reality