Stephen Greer

Queer exceptions (eBook, ePUB)

Solo performance in neoliberal times

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Queer exceptions is a study of contemporary solo performance in the UK and Western Europe that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and neoliberalism. With diverse case studies featuring the work of La Ribot, David Hoyle, Oreet Ashery, Bridget Christie, Tanja Ostojic, Adrian Howells and Nassim Soleimanpour, the book examines the role of singular or 'exceptional' subjects in constructing and challenging assumed notions of communal sociability and togetherness, while drawing fresh insight from the fields of sociology, gender studies and political philosophy to reconsider theatre's attachment to singular lives and experiences. Framed by a detailed exploration of arts festivals as encapsulating the material, entrepreneurial circumstances of contemporary performance-making, this is the first major critical study of solo work since the millennium.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526113726
• Artikelnr.: 56525921

Autorenporträt

Stephen Greer is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Practices at the University of Glasgow

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Locating solo performance
2. The martyr: dramaturgies of endurance, exhaustion and confession 3. The
pariah: queer outcasts and the politics of wounded attachment 4. The
killjoy: public unhappiness and theatrical scapegoats 5. The stranger:
performing 'out-of-placeness' in the UK and Europe 6. The misfit: illness,
disability and 'improper' subjects 7. The optimist: alternatives to
neoliberalism in the here and now Conclusion References Index