Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance
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Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance
Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance

Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance

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Patrick Duggan (Author)  

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Trauma-tragedy investigates the extent to which performance can represent the 'unrepresentable' of trauma. Throughout, there is a focus on how such representations might be achieved and if they could help us to understand trauma on personal and social levels. In a world increasingly preoccupied with and exposed to traumas, this volume considers what performance offers as a means of commentary that other cultural products do not. The book's clear and coherent navigation of complex relations between performance and trauma and its analysis of key practitioners and performances (from Sarah Kane to Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Harold Pinter to Forced Entertainment, and Phillip Pullman to Franco B) make it accessible and useful to students of performance and trauma studies, yet rigorous and incisive for scholars and specialists. Duggan explores ideas around the phenomenological and socio-political efficacy and impact of performance in relation to trauma. Ultimately, the book advances a new performance theory or mode, 'trauma-tragedy', that suggests much contemporary performance can generate the sensation of being present in trauma through its structural embodiment in performance, or 'presence-in-trauma effects'. -- . Illustrations, black & white
Patrick Duggan is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of Surrey -- .
  • Contributor: Patrick Duggan
  • Imprint: Manchester University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780719099885
  • Number of Pages: 240
  • Packaged Dimensions: 138x216mm
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Release Date: 2015-10-14
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Patrick Duggan is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of Surrey -- .

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