Ilter, Seda (2015) Rethinking play texts in the age of mediatization: Simon Stephens's Pornography. Modern Drama 58 (2), pp. 238-262. ISSN 0026-7694.
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Abstract
This article is unusual in that it responds to a tendency in contemporary theatre practice and scholarship to overlook play texts when exploring the effect media technologies and culture have on the theatre. Introducing the concept of ‘mediatized dramaturgy’, the article explores how a play can accommodate the social-cognitive conditions of a mediatized culture not only through direct reference to technology, but also in aesthetic subtleties that echo the contemporary moment. In light of this, the article analyzes Simon Stephens’s Pornography (2007) to show the workings of a mediatized play in opening new vistas to understand the new realities of the contemporary, and the reception of Pornography on stage to grasp the performative implications of a mediatized dramaturgy. This analysis challenges recent shifts in critical discourse about the media-theatre relation: the growing emphasis on performance, misconceptions about postdramatic theatre as a non-textual form and the text’s supposed incapacity to map the new reality of mediatized culture and consciousness.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | mediatization, dramaturgy, play-text, technology, Simon Stephens, Pornography, postdramatic |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Contemporary Theatre, Birkbeck Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Seda Ilter |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jun 2017 10:49 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:41 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/18827 |
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