Performing grief in pandemic theatres
Walsh, Fintan (2024) Performing grief in pandemic theatres. Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009464826.
Abstract
This Element explores how theatre responded to the death and loss produced by the COVID-19 pandemic, by innovating forms and spaces designed to support us in grief. It considers how theatre grieved for itself, for the dead, for lost ways of living, while also imagining and enacting new modes of being together. Even as it reckoned with its own demise, theatre endeavoured to collectivise grief by performing a range of functions more commonly associated with funerary, health and social care services, which buckled under restrictions and neglect. These pandemic theatres show how grief cannot only be let mourn over individual losses in private, but how it must also seep into the public sphere to fight to save critical services, institutions, communities and art forms, including theatre itself.
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| Item Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Educational Neuroscience, Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Fintan Walsh |
| Date Deposited: | 02 May 2024 10:20 |
| Last Modified: | 02 May 2024 10:20 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/52382 |
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