Theatrical Performance and the Forensic Turn

ISBN-13: 9780367730635 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 238 str.

James Frieze

Opis

The crucial role played by theatrical and performative techniques in fuelling the 'forensic turn' has frequently been mentioned, but never examined in detail. Theatrical Performance and the Forensic Turn is the first account of the relationship between theatrical and forensic aesthetics. 

Spis treści

Introduction: Theatrical Performance in the Forensic Turn

1. Data Chaos and the Verification Void











2. I’m Seen Therefore I Am: Romance in the Forensic Turn














3. The Hypothetical Real vs. the Interiority Illusion











4. Life Throes: The Strange Case of the Diehard Corpse











5. Undead Domesticity: Naturalism and Home in the Forensic Turn








6. Open Dialogue as Prefigurative Performance: Re-assembling the Forum (Part I)











7. Effects of Infinity: Re-assembling the Forum (Part II)

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

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).