The Memory Marketplace : Witnessing Pain in Contemporary Irish and International Theatre.
Pine, Emilie.
The Memory Marketplace : Witnessing Pain in Contemporary Irish and International Theatre. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (262 pages) - Irish Culture, Memory, Place Series . - Irish Culture, Memory, Place Series .
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Market for Pain -- 1. Tell Them That You Saw Us: Witnessing Docu-verbatim Memory -- 2. The Witness as Commodity: Autoperforming Memory -- 3. The Commissioned Witness, Theatre, and Truth -- 4. The Immaterial Labor of Listening: Presence, Absence, Failure, and the Commodification of the Witness -- 5. Consumers or Witnesses? Site-Specific Performance -- Conclusion: Activism in the Marketplace -- Index -- About the Author.
The complexities and nuances of this exchange--subject and witness, spectator and performer, consumer and commodified--provide a deeper understanding of the crucial role theatre plays in shaping public understanding of trauma, memory, and history.
9780253049513
Theater and society-Ireland-History-21st century.
Electronic books.
PN2601 / .P56 2020
792.09415000000001
The Memory Marketplace : Witnessing Pain in Contemporary Irish and International Theatre. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (262 pages) - Irish Culture, Memory, Place Series . - Irish Culture, Memory, Place Series .
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Market for Pain -- 1. Tell Them That You Saw Us: Witnessing Docu-verbatim Memory -- 2. The Witness as Commodity: Autoperforming Memory -- 3. The Commissioned Witness, Theatre, and Truth -- 4. The Immaterial Labor of Listening: Presence, Absence, Failure, and the Commodification of the Witness -- 5. Consumers or Witnesses? Site-Specific Performance -- Conclusion: Activism in the Marketplace -- Index -- About the Author.
The complexities and nuances of this exchange--subject and witness, spectator and performer, consumer and commodified--provide a deeper understanding of the crucial role theatre plays in shaping public understanding of trauma, memory, and history.
9780253049513
Theater and society-Ireland-History-21st century.
Electronic books.
PN2601 / .P56 2020
792.09415000000001