Staging loss : performance as commemoration /: performance as commemoration. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael Pinchbeck, Andrew Westerside.
• Editors: Pinchbeck, Michael; Westerside, Andrew
• Contents: 1. Staging loss: an introduction.- 2.There is some corner of a Lincolnshire field…: locating commemoration in the performance of Leaving Home; Andrew Westerside.- 3.Watching with mother: 'rejourning' the wartime memories of a Wren, 1946/2016; Karen Savage and Justin Smith.- 4.Commemoration: sacred differentiation of time and space in three WWI projects; Helen Newall.- 5.Making Bolero: dramaturgies of remembrance; Michael Pinchbeck.- 6.Andrew Bovell in the History Wars: Australia's continuing cultural crisis of remembering and forgetting;Donald Pulford.- 7.After them, the flood: remembering, performance and the writing of history; Dan Ellin and Conan Lawrence.- 8.Cheers, Grandad! Third Angel's Cape Wrath and The Lad Lit Project as acts of remembrance; Alexander Kelly.- 9.On Leaving the House: the loss of self and the search for 'the freedom of being' in The Wooster Group's Vieux Carré; Andrew Quick.- 10.The God, the owner & the master: staging rites of passage in the maritime crossing the line ceremony; Lisa Gaughan.- 11.Staging absence and the (un)making of memory in A Duet Without You; Chloé Déchery.- 12.Trace: shame and the art of mourning; Louie Jenkins.- 13.The performative ritual of loss: marking the intangible; Clare Parry-Jones.- 14.Searching shadows, lighting bones: commemorative performance as a radical, open-ended and ethical action; Emily Orley.- 15.Conclusion: Some words speak of events. Other words, events make us speak.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 792.0905; Theater -- History -- 21st century; Memorialization in the theater
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319979700
• Related ISBNs: 9783319979694
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