Performing objects and theatrical things

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 and ©2014

Subject:

Theater - Philosophy
Material culture
Theater - Historiography
Symbolic anthropology

Contributor:

Schweitzer, Marlis, editor
Zerdy, Joanne, editor

ISBN:

9781137402448, 113740244X, 9781137402455, and 1137402458

Description:

xv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-259) and index

Contents:

Introduction : Object lessons / Marlis Schweitzer and Joanne Zerdy -- Part I. Archival digs. Technology and wonder in thirteenth-century Iberia and beyond / Christopher Swift ; 'Nothing but a string of beads' : Maud Allan's Salomé costume as a 'choreographic thing' / Marlis Schweitzer ; Cartomania and the scriptive album : cartes-de-visite as objects of social practice / Nicole Berkin ; The linguistic animation of an American Yorick / Lezlie C. Cross ; House arrest : museological performance, animacy, and the remains of rural America / Margaret Werry -- Part II. Embodied research practices. 6. The unfolding roles of a walking map within NVA's Half Life / Joanne Zerdy ; Military memorialization and its object(s) of period purification / Helene Vosters ; Entided, enwatered, enwinded : human/more-than-human agencies in site-specific performance / Minty Donald -- Part III. Materialist semiotics. 9. 'All transparent' : Pepper's ghost, plate glass, and theatrical transformation / Aileen Robinson ; Que(e)rying theatrical objects / Benjamin Gillespie ; Making the invisible visible : virtual stage props and Christopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus / Joanne Tompkins ; Relic, souvenir, or just hair? : Exploring the complexities of objects as actants and things as mementos in the merchandise of El Vez, the Mexican Elvis / Karen Jean Martinson -- Part IV. Excavating between the lines. 13. Props breaking character : the performance and failure of real objects on the naturalist stage / Kee-Yoon Nahm ; Bodied objects : an analysis of the whip in George Aiken's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man / Chandra Owenby Hopkins ; Translocalized drums : mobilizing the intercultural in the Cantares Mexicanos / Leo Cabranes-Grant

Summary:

"Performing Objects and Theatrical Things rethinks historical and contemporary theatre, performance, and cultural events from the perspective of the objects and things that activate stages, venues, environments, and archives. Embracing methodologies from across the humanities and social sciences, we understand physical materials as actants, with particular frequencies, energies, and potentials to affect human and nonhuman worlds. The texts, stage properties, instruments, costumes, photographs, and detritus that animate this collection emerge from the thirteenth- to the twenty-first century, traversing sites across Europe and North America. Challenging anthropocentric narratives that foreground humans as sole agents, our authors present object and 'thingcentric' methodologies that range from deeply personal autoethnographic reflections and close textual readings to carefully researched archival studies and rhizomatic explorations of an object's journey from one place and time to another"-- Provided by publisher

Collection:

BGC Course Reserves

Call Number:

PN2039 .P396 2014

Available

c.1

Course Name:

449. In Focus: Welcome to the Dolls' House II. BGC Spring 2023

Instructor:

Hartzell, F.