Overview
Provides a new and original theorisation of an emerging field
Examines the relationships between performance and commemorative ritual
Places professional, public-facing, contemporary practice at its heart
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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This is not Re-enactment: Staging the Voices of the Dead
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Staging History: Dramaturgy, Remembering, Forgetting
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Commemoration and Place: Architecture, Landscape and the Ocean
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Eulogy, Memorial, Grief
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Andrew Westerside is Senior Lecturer in Drama & Theatre at the University of Lincoln’s School of Fine and Performing Arts, UK, and Co-Artistic Director of Proto-type Theater. Andrew is a performer, writer, director and academic. He has performed and toured nationally and internationally and directed work including: The Good, the God and the Guillotine (2013), A Machine they’re Secretly Building (2016), Fallen (2016) and The Audit (2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Staging Loss
Book Subtitle: Performance as Commemoration
Editors: Michael Pinchbeck, Andrew Westerside
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97970-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97969-4Published: 21 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40485-7Published: 18 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97970-0Published: 11 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 265
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Contemporary Theatre, Performing Arts, National/Regional Theatre and Performance