Staging Trauma

Bodies in Shadow
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-137-53662-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 243 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4401 g

Reihe: Contemporary Performance InterActions

Explores a range of performances in Ireland and the UK that engage with trauma and suffering
Focuses on figures who have previously been marginalised by dominant patriarchal theatrical and historical canons
Considers the staging of a range of traumatic episodes, including sexual violence, terminal illness, and asylum

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haughton, Miriam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Staging the Unknowable, the Unspeakable, the Unrepresentable.2. VIOLATION: On Raftery’s Hill (2001) by Marina Carr.3. LOSS: Colder Than Here (2005) by Laura Wade.4. CONTAINMENT: Laundry (2011) directed by Louise Lowe, ANU Productions.5. EXILE: Sanctuary (2013) directed by Teya Sepinuck for Derry Playhouse ‘Theatre of Witness’.6. Conclusion: Relationality.

Über Autor(innen)

Miriam Haughton is Lecturer at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. She has co-edited the collection Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland (2015) and published multiple essays in international journals, including Contemporary Theatre Review, Modern Drama, and Irish Studies Review.