In setting foot on stage, every performer invokes their own capacity to fail. The very performance of this action and those that follow it are inextricable from their potential not to succeed. Beyond Failure explores what it means for our understanding not just of theatrical practice but of human social and cultural activity more broadly.
In setting foot on stage, every performer invokes their own capacity to fail. The very performance of this action and those that follow it are inextricable from their potential not to succeed. Beyond Failure explores what it means for our understanding not just of theatrical practice but of human social and cultural activity more broadly.
Tony Fisher is Reader in Theatre and Philosophy at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London. His monograph, Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500-1900: Democracy, Disorder and the State, was published in 2017. He is also co-editor (with Eve Katsouraki) of Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance and Radical Democracy (2017). Eve Katsouraki's research concerns the intersections of philosophy and performance, especially in relation to modernism, political performance and animals. She is an editor for the peer-reviewed journal Performance Philosophy and core-convenor for the international Performance Philosophy network. She co-edited (with Tony Fisher) the volume Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance and Radical Democracy (2017).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: Knowing Failure Tony Fisher and Eve Katsouraki SECTION 1: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF FAILURE 2. Carry on Camping?: Spectacle, Concealment and Failure in the Performance of Politics Simon Bayly 3. What Chance Failure? Mischa Twitchin 4. Subverting the System: Kent Monkman and the Cultural Politics of Performing 'Two-Spiritedness' Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds 5. Come Hear the Music Play: The Politics of Queer Failure and Practices of Survival Joe Parslow 6. Asserting Afro German Subjectivity on the German Stage Macelle Mahala SECTION 2: FAILURE AND PERFORMANCE 7. Anaesthesis: Dance Marathons and the Limits of Sense Kélina Gotman 8. Missing the Target: Emotion, Stoic Psychology and the Actor Cormac Power SECTION 3: THEATRE'S PHILOSOPHY OF FAILURE 9. Theatre of the Worldless Tony Fisher 10. Theatre's Broken Middle Eve Katsouraki 11. What a Joke: Ruzzante's Failed Attempt at the Good Life Will Daddario Index
1. Introduction: Knowing Failure Tony Fisher and Eve Katsouraki SECTION 1: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF FAILURE 2. Carry on Camping?: Spectacle, Concealment and Failure in the Performance of Politics Simon Bayly 3. What Chance Failure? Mischa Twitchin 4. Subverting the System: Kent Monkman and the Cultural Politics of Performing 'Two-Spiritedness' Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds 5. Come Hear the Music Play: The Politics of Queer Failure and Practices of Survival Joe Parslow 6. Asserting Afro German Subjectivity on the German Stage Macelle Mahala SECTION 2: FAILURE AND PERFORMANCE 7. Anaesthesis: Dance Marathons and the Limits of Sense Kélina Gotman 8. Missing the Target: Emotion, Stoic Psychology and the Actor Cormac Power SECTION 3: THEATRE'S PHILOSOPHY OF FAILURE 9. Theatre of the Worldless Tony Fisher 10. Theatre's Broken Middle Eve Katsouraki 11. What a Joke: Ruzzante's Failed Attempt at the Good Life Will Daddario Index
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