How does theatre shape the body and perceptions of it? How do
bodies on stage challenge audience assumptions about material
evidence and the truth? Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies responds
to these questions by examining how theatre participates in and
informs theories of the body in performance, race, queer,
disability, trans, gender, and new media studies. Throughout the
20th century, theories of the body have shifted from understanding
the body as irrefutable material evidence of race, sex, and gender,
to a social construction constituted in language. In the same
period, theatre has struggled with representing ideas through live
bodies while calling into question assumptions about the body. This
volume demonstrates how theatre contributes to understanding the
historical, contemporary and burgeoning theories of the body. It
explores how theories of the body inform debates about labor
conditions and spatial configurations. Theatre allows performers to
shift an audience's understandings of the shape of the bodies on
stage, possibly producing a reflexive dynamic for consideration of
bodies offstage as well. In addition, casting choices in the
theatre, most recently and popularly in Hamilton, question how
certain bodies are "cast" in social, historical, and philosophical
roles. Through an analysis of contemporary case studies, including
The Balcony, Angels in America, and Father Comes Home from the
Wars, this volume examines how the theatre theorizes bodies. Online
resources are also available to accompany this book.
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