1st Edition
Beyond Failure New Essays on the Cultural History of Failure in Theatre and Performance
1. Introduction: Knowing Failure
Tony Fisher and Eve Katsouraki
PART I: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF FAILURE
2. Carry on Camping?: Spectacle, Concealment, and Failure in the Performance of Politics
Simon Bayly
3. What Chance Failure?
Mischa Twitchin
4. Subverting the System: Kent Monkman and the Cultural Politics of Performing ‘Two-Spiritedness’
Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds
5. Come Hear the Music Play: The Politics of Queer Failure and Practices of Survival
Joe Parslow
6. Asserting Afro-German Subjectivity on the German Stage
Macelle Mahala
PART II: FAILURE AND PERFORMANCE
7. Anaesthesis: Dance Marathons and the Limits of Sense
Kélina Gotman
8. Missing the Target: Emotion, Stoic Psychology, and the Actor
Cormac Power
PART III: THEATRE’S PHILOSOPHY OF FAILURE
9. Theatre of the Worldless
Tony Fisher
10. Theatre’s Broken Middle
Eve Katsouraki
11. What a Joke: Ruzzante’s Failed Attempt at the Good Life
Will Daddario
Index
Biography
Tony Fisher is Reader in Theatre and Philosophy at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London. His monograph, Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500–1900: Democracy, Disorder and the State, was published in 2017. He is also co-editor (with Eve Katsouraki) of Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance and Radical Democracy (2017).
Eve Katsouraki's research concerns the intersections of philosophy and performance, especially in relation to modernism, political performance and animals. She is an editor for the peer-reviewed journal Performance Philosophy and core-convenor for the international Performance Philosophy network. She co-edited (with Tony Fisher) the volume Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance and Radical Democracy (2017).
