Political Dramaturgies and Theatre Spectatorship
Provocations for Change
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Product details:
- Publisher Methuen Drama
- Date of Publication 24 December 2020
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350197589
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 211x135x8 mm
- Weight 280 g
- Language English 165
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Long description:
What do we mean when we describe theatre as political today? How might theatre-makers' provocations for change need to be differently designed when addressing the precarious spectator-subject of twenty- first century neoliberalism? In this important study Liz Tomlin interrogates the influential theories of Jacques Ranci?re to propose a new framework of analysis through which contemporary political dramaturgies can be investigated. Drawing, in particular, on Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Lilie Chouliaraki and Judith Butler, Tomlin argues that the capacities of the contemporary and future spectator to be 'effected' or 'affected' by politically-engaged theatre need to be urgently re-evaluated.
Central to this study is Tomlin's theorized figuration of the neoliberal spectator-subject as precarious, individualized and ironic, with a reduced capacity for empathy, agency and the ability to imagine better futures. This, in turn, leads to a predilection for a response to injustice that is driven by a concern for the feelings of the subject-self, rather than concern for the suffering other. These characteristics are argued to shape even those spectator-subjects towards the left of the political spectrum, thus necessitating a careful reconsideration of new and long-standing dramaturgies of political provocation.
Dramaturgies examined include the ironic invitations of Made in China and Martin Crimp, the exploration of affect in Kieran Hurley's Heads Up, the new sincerity that characterizes the work of Andy Smith, the turn to the staging of the spectators' 'other' in Developing Artists' Queens of Syria and Chris Thorpe and Rachel Chavkin's Confirmation, and the community activism of Common Wealth's The Deal Versus the People.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Configuring the Spectator-Subject
Chapter One: Real and Imagined Spectators
Chapter Two: The Autonomous Spectator
Chapter Three: Precarious Spectators
Part Two: Contemporary Political Dramaturgies
Chapter Four: Political Logics and Contemporary Dramaturgies
Chapter Five: Questions of Irony and Interpellation
Chapter Six: Questions of Autonomy and Affect
Chapter Seven: Questions of Empathy and Agonism
Chapter Eight: Questions of Antagonism and Agency
Epilogue
References
Index
Political Dramaturgies and Theatre Spectatorship: Provocations for Change
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