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David Greig's Holed Theatre


David Greig's Holed Theatre

Globalization, Ethics and the Spectator

von: Verónica Rodríguez

80,24 €

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 09.02.2019
ISBN/EAN: 9783030061821
Sprache: englisch

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<div>With a Foreword by Dan Rebellato, this book offers up a detailed exploration of Scottish playwright David Greig’s work with particular attention to globalization, ethics, and the spectator. It makes the argument that Greig’s theatre works by undoing, cracking, or breaking apart myriad elements to reveal the holed, porous nature of all things. Starting with a discussion of Greig’s engagement with shamanism and arguing for holed theatre as a response to globalization, for Greig’s works’ politics of aesthethics, and for the holed spectator as part of an affective ecology of transfers, this book discusses some of Greig’s most representative political theatre from <i>Europe </i>(1994) to <i>The Events</i> (2013), concluding with an exploration of Greig’s theatre’s world-forming quality.<br></div>
<div>1. Introduction: A Shamanic Semionaut.- 2.&nbsp;Holed Theatre as Response to Globalization.- 3.&nbsp;From Ethics to the Politics of Aesthethics.- 4.&nbsp;Affect and the Holed Spectator: Ecology of Transfers.- 5.&nbsp;<i>Europe</i>: Globalization’s Inferiors.- 6.&nbsp;<i>The Architect</i>: Blowing Up Architectures of Power.- 7.&nbsp;<i>The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union</i>: “All this Fucking Beautiful Stuff”.- 8.&nbsp;<i>San Diego</i>: Stitching up the Globe.- 9.&nbsp;<i>The American Pilot</i>: A Precarious Restoration to ‘the Real’.- 10.&nbsp;<i>Damascus</i>: Trouma.- 11.&nbsp;<i>Fragile</i>: Sharing Doing and Spatial Transcorporeality.- 12.&nbsp;<i>The Events</i>: Confounding Spacecraft – Here.- 13.&nbsp;Conclusion: World-Forming Theatre.</div>
<b>Verónica Rodríguez</b> is Visiting Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University and Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She is a member of 'British Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis, Affect, Community', a four-year research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and by FEDER (European Union) (FFI2016-75443).
With a Foreword by Dan Rebellato, this book offers up a detailed exploration of Scottish playwright David Greig’s work with particular attention to globalization, ethics, and the spectator. It makes the argument that Greig’s theatre works by undoing, cracking, or breaking apart myriad elements to reveal the holed, porous nature of all things. Starting with a discussion of Greig’s engagement with shamanism and arguing for holed theatre as a response to globalization, for Greig’s works’ politics of aesthethics, and for the holed spectator as part of an affective ecology of transfers, this book discusses some of Greig’s most representative political theatre from&nbsp;<i>Europe&nbsp;</i>(1994) to&nbsp;<i>The Events</i>&nbsp;(2013), concluding with an exploration of Greig’s theatre’s world-forming quality.
<p>Explores an understudied topic in the field of drama, theatre and performance studies</p><p>Provides an original understanding and tackling of politics, aesthetics and ethics as intertwined concepts</p><p>Builds on existing scholarship and perspectives about Greig’s theatre in order to open new approaches to his work</p>
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“<i>David Greig’s Holed Theatre: Globalization, Ethics and the Spectator</i>&nbsp;is a creative and theoretically nuanced study of Greig’s drama from&nbsp;<i>Europe</i> to <i>The Events</i>. Identifying Greig as a “shamanic semionaut”,&nbsp;Rodríguez weaves an intricate and compelling analysis of the porous,&nbsp;relational nature of his theatre that meshes its aesthetic, ethical&nbsp;and political dimensions. An illuminating book guided by a passion&nbsp;for its subject and opening fresh perspectives on Greig’s multifaceted&nbsp;work.” (Clare Wallace, Charles University, Czech Republic)<p>“This is an important book that offers new ways of thinking and new vocabularies for approaching Greig’s rich and often puzzling body of work. Rodríguez methodically and meticulously investigates how Greig’s “holed theatre” momentarily and through contradictions might critique but also offer hope on the state of our world.” (Marilena Zaroulia, University of Winchester, UK)<br></p>

<p>“This book offers a reading of Greig’s work that has been indicated in previous accounts, but which has, up to this point, not received the detailed study it deserves. The theoretical framework is clearly delineated, the individual chapters rest on very careful readings of specific texts and performances, and Rodríguez is commendably clear on the links between the texts and performances, the theoretical framework she has established, and the wider world in which Greig’s work operates. This is an important contribution to the study of Greig’s work.” (David Pattie, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham, UK)</p>

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