Matthew Causey is Associate Professor in the School of Drama, Film and Music at Trinity College Dublin, IrelandFintan Walsh is Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK

"Imparting momentum to the dialogue between theory and practice, the volume triangulates performance, subject, and neoliberalism to repoliticize the reliance on ‘identity politics’ in theatre and performance studies...Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject scrutinizes an interpretive crisis in theatre and performance studies, and provides a remarkable rethinking of the modalities of subjection engaged by performance." --Hana Worthen, Barnard College, Contemporary Theatre Review

• Introduction: Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject Matthew Causey and Fintan Walsh Part I: Positioning the Neo-Political Subject 1. Bloody Thought Herb Blau 2. ID/entity: the Subject’s Own Taking Place Matthew Causey and Gabriella Calchi Novati Part II: A/Semiotic Directions 3. The Theatre of Thought Patricia MacCormack 4. Performance, the Field Body, and Zombies in Societies of Entrainment David Fancy 5. The Fugitive Theatre of Romeo Castellucci: Intermedial Refractions and Fractalactic Occurrences Bryan Reynolds and Adam Bryx 6. The Post-subjective Body, Or Deleuze and Guattari Meet Romeo Castellucci Audronė Žukauskaitė Part III: Collaborative Practice, Collective Action 7. A Diluted Manifesto Lin Hixson, Matthew Goulish, and Laura Cull 8. Being Janez Janša’ Maaike Bleeker 9. The Bone’s Pirouette: Dance, Identity and Energy Petra Kuppers 10. Dance and the Event: John Jasperse’s Giant Empty and the Disclosure of Being as Time Nigel Stewart Part IV: Performing Along and Outside the Borders of Identity 11. Temporary Legitimacy: Queer Possibilities in Digital Performance Stephen Greer 12. Affective Presents/Effective Presence: Intensity, Futurity, and the Theatrical Politics of the Child Joshua Abrahams 13. The Matter of Queer Politics and Ethics: Antony Hegarty and The Crying Light Fintan Walsh 14. Reflective Viewing: ORLAN’s Hybridized Harlequin, Banksy, Bacon, and the Animal-Human Divide Jennifer Parker-Starbuck 15. Palestine and Political Invention Maurya Wickstrom

Matthew Causey is Associate Professor in the School of Drama, Film and Music at Trinity College Dublin, IrelandFintan Walsh is Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK

"Imparting momentum to the dialogue between theory and practice, the volume triangulates performance, subject, and neoliberalism to repoliticize the reliance on ‘identity politics’ in theatre and performance studies...Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject scrutinizes an interpretive crisis in theatre and performance studies, and provides a remarkable rethinking of the modalities of subjection engaged by performance." --Hana Worthen, Barnard College, Contemporary Theatre Review

• Introduction: Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject Matthew Causey and Fintan Walsh Part I: Positioning the Neo-Political Subject 1. Bloody Thought Herb Blau 2. ID/entity: the Subject’s Own Taking Place Matthew Causey and Gabriella Calchi Novati Part II: A/Semiotic Directions 3. The Theatre of Thought Patricia MacCormack 4. Performance, the Field Body, and Zombies in Societies of Entrainment David Fancy 5. The Fugitive Theatre of Romeo Castellucci: Intermedial Refractions and Fractalactic Occurrences Bryan Reynolds and Adam Bryx 6. The Post-subjective Body, Or Deleuze and Guattari Meet Romeo Castellucci Audronė Žukauskaitė Part III: Collaborative Practice, Collective Action 7. A Diluted Manifesto Lin Hixson, Matthew Goulish, and Laura Cull 8. Being Janez Janša’ Maaike Bleeker 9. The Bone’s Pirouette: Dance, Identity and Energy Petra Kuppers 10. Dance and the Event: John Jasperse’s Giant Empty and the Disclosure of Being as Time Nigel Stewart Part IV: Performing Along and Outside the Borders of Identity 11. Temporary Legitimacy: Queer Possibilities in Digital Performance Stephen Greer 12. Affective Presents/Effective Presence: Intensity, Futurity, and the Theatrical Politics of the Child Joshua Abrahams 13. The Matter of Queer Politics and Ethics: Antony Hegarty and The Crying Light Fintan Walsh 14. Reflective Viewing: ORLAN’s Hybridized Harlequin, Banksy, Bacon, and the Animal-Human Divide Jennifer Parker-Starbuck 15. Palestine and Political Invention Maurya Wickstrom