Staging Trauma

Bodies in Shadow

Miriam Haughton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

243 Seiten

2018 | 2018 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-53662-4 (ISBN)

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This book investigates contemporary British and Irish performances that stage traumatic narratives, histories, acts and encounters. It includes a range of case studies that consider the performative, cultural and political contexts for the staging and reception of sexual violence, terminal illness, environmental damage, institutionalisation and asylum. In particular, it focuses on 'bodies in shadow' in twenty-first century performance: those who are largely written out of or marginalised in dominant twentieth-century patriarchal canons of theatre and history. This volume speaks to students, scholars and artists working within contemporary theatre and performance, Irish and British studies, memory and trauma studies, feminisms, performance studies, affect and reception studies, as well as the medical humanities.

Miriam Haughton is Lecturer at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. She has co-edited the collection Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland (2015) and published multiple essays in international journals, including Contemporary Theatre Review, Modern Drama, and Irish Studies Review.

1. Introduction: Staging the Unknowable, the Unspeakable, the Unrepresentable.2. VIOLATION: On Raftery’s Hill (2001) by Marina Carr.3. LOSS: Colder Than Here (2005) by Laura Wade.4. CONTAINMENT: Laundry (2011) directed by Louise Lowe, ANU Productions.5. EXILE: Sanctuary (2013) directed by Teya Sepinuck for Derry Playhouse ‘Theatre of Witness’.6. Conclusion: Relationality.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.04.2018
Reihe/Serie	Contemporary Performance InterActions
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 243 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Bodies in shadow • contemporary theatre and performance • Feminism • Medical Humanities • Memory and trauma • Psychological violence • Sexual Violence • Staging violence • Suffering • Trauma • Traumatic narratives • Twenty-first century performance
ISBN-10	1-137-53662-4 / 1137536624
ISBN-13	978-1-137-53662-4 / 9781137536624
Zustand	Neuware