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Political Dramaturgies and Theatre Spectatorship - Provocations for Change (Paperback)
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Political Dramaturgies and Theatre Spectatorship - Provocations for Change (Paperback)
Series: Methuen Drama Engage
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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 Ranciere 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.
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