Theatrical performance and the forensic turn[electronic resource]
- 作者: Frieze, James,
- 出版: Abingdon, Oxon ;New York, NY : Routledge 2019.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (ix, 237 p.).
- 叢書名: Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies
- 標題: Reality in literature. , PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General , SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology , PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General , Truth in literature. , Theater and society. , Electronic books.
- ISBN: 0415854504 , 9780415854504
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- 附註: Introduction : theatrical performance in the forensic turn -- Data chaos and the verification void -- I'm seen therefore I am : romance in the forensic turn -- The hypothetical real vs. the interiority illusion -- Life throes : the strange case of the diehard corpse -- Undead domesticity : naturalism and home in the forensic turn -- Open dialogue as prefigurative performance : re-assembling the forum (part I) -- Effects of infinity : re-assembling the forum (part II).
- 摘要: "Contemporary theatre, like so much of contemporary life, is obsessed with the ways of which information is detected, packaged and circulated. Running through forms as diverse as neo-naturalistic playwriting, intimately immersive theatre, verbatim drama, intermedial performance, and musical theatre, a common thread can be observed: theatre-makers have moved away from assertions of what is true and focused on questions about how truth is framed. Commentators in variousdisciplines, including education, fine art, journalism, medicine, cultural studies, and law, have identified a 'forensic turn' in culture. The crucial role played by theatrical and performative techniques in fuelling this forensic turn hasfrequently been mentioned, but never examined in detail. Political and poetic, Theatrical Performance and the Forensic Turn is the first account of the relationship between theatrical and forensic aesthetics. Exploring a rich variety of works that interrogate and resist the forensic turn, this is a must-read not only for scholars of theatre and performance, but of culture across the arts, sciences and social sciences"--
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This book is the first substantial account of contemporary theatre’s fixation with the processing and detection of evidence. Since the mid-1990s, across diverse branches of theatrical performance, truth has increasingly been figured in terms of means rather than ends, with procedures for the gathering of information becoming the focus of attention. This overarching turn to the forensic has been obscured by the critical tendency to treat genres discretely. Frieze reconsiders landmark works that have been used to constitute dominant genres, such as Blast Theory’s Desert Rain (virtual theatre), Sarah Kane’s Blasted (in-yer-face/new writing), and Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the Mirror (verbatim drama), reading a range of works (by companies such as Troika Ranch, Les Deux Mondes, and Inspector Sands) that defy generic categorization—a factor that has denied these works the scholarly attention they deserve. The book’s contextualization of the forensic turn begins in the late nineteenth-century, when Zola’s manifesto and the playwriting of Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov (all of whom had medical training) introduced a naturalistic theatre against which twentieth-century alternative theatre movements would repeatedly rail and react. The forensic turn is in part a revival of naturalism’s diagnostic method and tone. However, while naturalistic playwrights receded from view to the point of invisibility, their characters appearing to act of their own volition, the technical expertise of those seeking after truth is scrutinized in the era of the forensic. This volume frames contemporary theatre’s interrogation of expertise and evidence-gathering by closely articulating performance examples with television’s ceaseless supply of crime-scene investigation and reality shows, and with political and social debates about journalistic procedures and the management of identity data (identity recognition/theft/fraud/leaking).
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