The visual as an event: spect-acting gender in Out of a Doll's House. Issue 3 (2nd October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yerushalmi, Dorit
• Is Part Of: Journal of visual literacy. Volume 40:Issue 3/4(2021)
• Page Start: 250
• Page End: 257
• Publication Date: 2021-10-02
• Subjects: Visual dramaturgy -- post-dramatic theatre -- event -- performance -- gender; Visual literacy -- United States -- Periodicals; Visual learning -- United States -- Periodicals; Visual communication -- United States -- Periodicals; Visual learning; Visual literacy; United States; Periodicals; 302.22605
• DOI: 10.1080/1051144X.2021.1974776
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1051-144X

Abstract

Abstract: Theatre is an image producer that is embedded with cultural practices of looking and critically involved in modes of looking. This case study offers an analysis of Out of a Doll's House, a post-dramatic feminist performance. It demonstrates the manner in which visual dramaturgy exposes spectators to the process of performing an image as an action, and to the mechanism of constructing a theatrical image as a reflexive event. The analysis explores how visual post-dramatic dramaturgy allows participants to observe and experiment with gender as performance and with the visual as an event.