Performance Research Volume 10 Issue 1

On Theatre

Issue editors: Richard Gough & Nicholas Ridout

ISBN: 978-0-415-37374

Contemporary thought in and through performance has sometimes figured the theatre as its discarded other, a past which it has happily outgrown, or a parent it has effectively disowned. What might contemporary performance owe to the theatre? Is there a thinking peculiar to the theatre - a thinking perhaps enmeshed in problems of representation - that offers something of value to theorists and practitioners today? Is there anything lying around in the field opened up by the practices and study of performance that might be seen or understood differently if thought through theatre? On Theatre aims to explore all that might be considered productive in the encounter between the institutions and practices of theatre and the discourses and challenges of performance.

On Form/Yet to Come

Ric Allsopp

pp. 1 - 4

The Landsdown Club, London [This photograph and those titled below are from the series 'Empty Stages']

Hugo Glendinning, Tim Etchells

pp. 2 - 2

The Macbeth, London

Hugo Glendinning, Tim Etchells

pp. 3 - 3

Steam Radio: On theatre's thin air

Steven Connor

pp. 4 - 17

It Happens This Time Only

Kinkaleri

pp. 18 - 24

The Polish Club, Sheffield

Hugo Glendinning, Tim Etchells

pp. 25 - 25

Troublesome Amateurs: Theatre, ethics and the labour of mimesis

Adrian Kear

pp. 26 - 46

The King's Head Theatre, London

Hugo Glendinning, Tim Etchells

pp. 47 - 47

Absorption and Focalization: Performance and its double

Maaike Bleeker

pp. 48 - 60

Eccleshall Non Political Club, Sheffield

Hugo Glendinning, Tim Etchells

pp. 61 - 61

Theatrum Mundi

Daniel Watt

pp. 62 - 66

The Conway Hall, London

Hugo Glendinning, Tim Etchells

pp. 67 - 67

Translating Bodies

Mick Wallis

pp. 68 - 80

Bloody Mess, Munich, Germany

Hugo Glendinning, Tim Etchells

pp. 81 - 81

Chronicles of the Indeterminate: Ordering chaos in the retrospectives of Forced Entertainment

Sarah Gorman

pp. 82 - 94

Stan's Café [artist's pages]

pp. 95 - 98

The People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London

Hugo Glendinning, Tim Etchells

pp. 99 - 99

Once More With Feeling

Martin Welton

pp. 100 - 112

The Woodseats Working Men's Club, Sheffield

Hugo Glendinning, Tim Etchells

pp. 113 - 113

Acting on the Media: The actor's modes of being on stage in an age of technological mediation

Anja Klöck

pp. 114 - 126

Toynbee Hall, London

Hugo Glendinning, Tim Etchells

pp. 127 - 127

Finishing Stanislavski…: (An artificially intelligent autonomous agent prepares)

Nancy Reilly-McVittie, Catherine Liu

pp. 128 - 132

Notes on Contributors

pp. 133 - 134