Performance in an Age of Precarity
40 Reflections
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Product details:
- Publisher Methuen Drama
- Date of Publication 11 February 2021
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350190641
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 232x156x18 mm
- Weight 380 g
- Language English 136
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"This magical book is a love letter to the artists whose imagination and cleverness transport us and unite us, and to the beauty and fragility of their performance. When I read it I feel like I am constantly on the joyful edge of falling in love, trying so hard to keep hold of the feelings evoked. A very precious book in our precarious times." Vicky Featherstone
An anthology of critical essays that draw on a decade of the authors thinking, writing about and working within contemporary performance as critics, producers, dramaturgs, makers, archivists and more.
Together, the 40 essays sketch a map of the contemporary performance landscape from avant-garde dance to live art to independent theatre, tracing the contours of its themes, aims, desires and relationship to the wider worlds of mainstream theatre, art and politics.
Each essay focuses on a particular artist and these include Bryony Kimmings, Dickie Beau, Forced Entertainment, Scottee, Selina Thompson, Tania El Khoury and Uninvited Guests.
Reflecting the radical nature of the work considered, the authors attempt to find a new vocabulary and a non-conventional way of considering live performance in these essays.
As both a fresh survey of contemporary performance and an exploration of how to think and write about upstream and avant-garde work, this book should be an essential resource for students, artists and audiences, as well as an accessible entry point for anyone curious to know about the beautiful and strange things happening beyond the UK's theatrical mainstream.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
About This Book
1. Reckoning with History
Rachael Young
Dickie Beau
Tania El Khoury
Breach Theatre
Uninvited Guests
2. In Search of New Languages
Verity Standen
Nigel Barrett & Louise Mari
Ellie Dubois
Alexandrina Hemsley & Jamila Johnson-Small
3. The Company You Keep
Deer Park
Made In China
Bertrand Lesca & Nasi Voutsas
Neil Callaghan & Simone Kenyon
Action Hero
4. Fractures and How to Mend Them
Dan Canham
Sue MacLaine
Amy Sharrocks
Rachel Mars
Selina Thompson
5. Close Encounters
Abigail Conway
Sheila Ghelani
Brian Lobel
Ria Hartley
Stephanie Albert
6. Acts of Resistance
Nic Green
Scottee
Leo Skilbeck & Milk Presents
Christopher Brett Bailey
Adrian Howells
7. Other Lives Are Possible
Hunt & Darton
Rajni Shah
Bryony Kimmings
Emma Frankland
Figs in Wigs
8. Ways of Remembering
Jemima Yong
Deborah Pearson
Greg Wohead
Forced Entertainment
Tim Crouch & Andy Smith
