Performance Affects Applied Theatre and the End of Effect

Name: Performance Affects Applied Theatre and the End of Effect
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ISBN: 9780230354326

ISBN-10: 0230354327

ISBN-13: 9780230354326

Edition: 2009

Authors: James Thompson

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List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 4/28/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 205
Size: 5.62" wide x 9.13" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Preface to the Paperback Edition


Introduction: Hedonism Is a Bunker


Applied theatre


The end of effect


Affects


Performance


From Part I to Part II - from effect to affect



The End of Effect



Incidents of Cutting and Chopping


An international incident


A showpiece


Competing narratives and the public meets the private


Applied theatre as strategy or tactic?


Making a perruque


Postscript



The End of the Story?


Stone 1


Stone 2


Trauma - 'a cut into the soul'


A-historical and a-cultural trauma


The imperative to tell


Trauma, the 'importance of storytelling' and the connections to theatre


The 'failure of silence'


In defence of silence (and many other forms of expression)


An ethnography of performance in crisis


Conclusion



Academic Scriptwriters and Bodily Affects


Rwanda performed


Re-imagining projects


The first slips - from Abiyunze to prison


A change of key - memorials


Suspended memory - Murambi


Strategic memory - Kigali Memorial Centre


Memory theatres


Back to the protean bodies


Towards Part II



Performance Affects



Performance Affects: A Kind of Triumph


From effects to affects


Defining affect


Theories of affect


Affects and the political


Theatre, performance and affect


Affect and method


Conclusion: Back to bewilderment



The Call of Beauty: An Affective Invitation


Beauty makes a comeback


A troublesome term


Performances of pain


So is beauty good?


Limiting the ephemeral


Conclusion: Beholder bias



About Face: Disturbing the Fabric of the Sensible


Facing the other


Political affects


Face to face in performance


The fabric of the sensible


Conclusion: Political passion


Conclusion: Let them slide


The end of the story?


Notes


Bibliography


Index