Exploring Identity and Difference in Edward Bond’s Tune. Theatre in Education Company Big Brum regularly wrestle in rehearsal with complex interactions between coded and uncoded states in the plays that Bond writes for them. In Tune (2011) Robert, angered by his mother’s … Lire la suite
Giving birth to ‘a third world as work in common and space-time to be shared’. The importance of Irigaray and Butler to staging Kane’s Cleansed (1998). The paper draws on dramaturgical enquiry into Sarah Kane’s 1998 play Cleansed, carried out … Lire la suite
Unaccomodated Kings on Stage: Cavell and the Curse of Theatricality In an effort to approach the larger question of the importance of theater to the philosophical thought of Stanley Cavell – and especially to his interests in moral perfectionism, modernism, … Lire la suite
“Boring Myself to Death”: The thanatotic theater of Hedda Gabler In No Future, Lee Edelman has theorized queerness through the figure of the “sinthomosexual,” one who rejects the imperatives of sexual and societal reproduction and openly wields the negativity of … Lire la suite
“’Gender Discombobulation’: Articulating the Phobia in Homophobia” On January 11th 2014, Rory O’Neill aka Panti Bliss (Ireland’s premier drag queen) appeared on The Saturday Night Show, a talk show for the national broadcaster RTE, where he identified opinion columnists and … Lire la suite
‘HEGEL SAYS’: ventriloquising the word (of) ‘HIM’ with Anne Carson’s Antigonick. Anne Carson’s recent ‘translation’ of Sophokles Ancient tragedy – enigmatically retitled Antigonick (Carson 2012) – can be read as a contemporary feminist coup de théâtre, and constitutes an important case study in the emergent field of Performance Philosophy. Here, the … Lire la suite
Who Are the Puppeteers? The Current Philosophical Conflict Over Plato’s Work in Stage Since Greek Antiquity, the encounter between philosophy and theatre has been marked by disagreement. In such contentious space another term emerges: politics. In this paper I will … Lire la suite
Philosophies of Spectatorship after 1945 If there is a divide between philosophical approaches to theater in Anglo-American and continental thought, how does this divide mark contrasting theories of spectatorship? So large a question might organize a history of philosophical thinking … Lire la suite
Ce que le tournant pragmatique fait à nos façons de penser le théâtre en France Il s’agira de mettre en perspective le pragmatisme américain (Dewey/Shusterman d’un côté, la pragmatique linguistique de l’autre), le pragmatisme français (Boltanski, Thévenot) et les scènes … Lire la suite
Anarchistory of Performance, a heresy in action There are performances that have no fixed abode in the Arts. Invisible to the norm, unnamed, they dwell a nomadic and unsettled condition, disappearing as surplus holes of the situation. Through a subtractive … Lire la suite
