Sites of Performance

Clark Lunberry is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of North Florida.

“In Lunberry’s deft and limpid impressions on the limits of theater, we find a theory of theoria and its double—the fraught aughts and variously perfumed invisibles, the unseen of seeing across the uncoded edges of the stage. This is where the mirror leaves off and thought begins. Or the unthinkable. Lunberry is a lyricist of the core of what makes being seen the necessary but traumatic proposition of theater, and perhaps of being itself.” —Joe Milutis, University of Washington Bothell, author of “Failure, A Writer’s Life”

• Preface; 1. A Body Bending: Removing the Boots of Beckett and Proust; 2. (“Silence”): Scripting Absence; 3. Blood on the Wall: The True Tragic Pleasure of “Medea”; 4. Coriolanus in the Marketplace 5. Antonin Artaud’s Unending Death Rattle; 6. Writing upon Theaters of Tragic Thought; 7. Figures of Speech: Ann Hamilton’s Installations of Absence; 8. Illuminated Theater: The Stages of James Turrell; 9. Suspicious Silence: Walking Out on John Cage; 10. In Living Memory: Morton Feldman’s Departing Landscapes; Postscript: Seeing In Plain Sight — Installations in Flight; Bibliography; Index