248 Pages
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Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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Contemporary theatre, like so much of contemporary life, is obsessed with the ways in 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... Read more
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)
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Biography
James Frieze teaches contemporary performance practice and theory at Liverpool John Moores University. His devised theatre-making centres on the adaptation of non-theatre texts for site-responsive and other performance contexts. He is also the author of Naming Theatre: Demonstrative Diagnosis in Performance (2009) and the editor of Reframing Immersive Theatre: The Politics and Pragmatics of Participatory Performance (2016).
