1st Edition

Surviving Theatre The Living Archive of Spectatorship

By Marco Pustianaz Copyright 2022
284 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Written soon before and in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, when theatre ground to a halt and spectatorship was suspended, this book takes stock of spectatorship as theatre’s living archive and affirms its value in the midst of the present crisis. Drawing from a manifold affective archive of performances and installations (by Marina Abramović, Ron Athey, Forced Entertainment, Socìetas... Read more

1 Infinite Amounts of Remaining Time  2 Affect and the Spectator’s Body  3 Spect(r)ating Hamlet  4 Spectatorship at Work  5 Diasporics  6 The Manifold Archive of Shibboleth

Biography

Marco Pustianaz is Associate Professor of English Literature and Theatre at Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli. He has published on queer theory and performance studies, and co-curated, with Giulia Palladini, Lexicon for an Affective Archive (2017).