Losing It

Staging the Cultural Conundrum of Dementia and Decline in American Theatre

AvDorothy Chansky

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

This study shines a spotlight on eleven dementia plays that have been produced in the United States over the past century, and seeks, in the words of medical humanities scholar Anne Whitehead, to “open up, and to hold open, central ethical questions of responsiveness, interpretation, responsibility, complicity and care.”

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-08-11
Mått:148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt:441 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031209048

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Teater inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Dorothy Chansky is a Professor in the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University, USA, where she is a President's Excellence in Research Professor. She was Founding Director of Tech's Humanities Center and a past President of the American Theatre and Drama Society as well as Vice President for Publications of the American Society for Theatre Research. Dorothy’s previous publications include Composing Ourselves: The Little Theatre Movement and the American Audience (2004) and Kitchen Sink Realisms: Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama on the American Stage (2015). She was editor of Theatre Annual: A Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas from 2011-2016 and is a former Book Review Editor of Theatre Journal. She is a current member of the Translation, Adaptation, and Dramaturgy Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research.

Innehållsförteckning

PART I: ORIENTATION.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Dementia, Alzheimer’s, Age: Intersectionalities.- Chapter 3: Bodies in the Audience/Bodies Onstage: Intersectionalities.- PART II: SOCIAL INSECURITY.- Chapter 4: Walk-on: Joint Owners in Spain.- Chapter 5: Supporting Role: All the Living.- Chapter 6: Willy Loman Center Stage: Death of a Salesman.- PART III: TAKING IT PERSONALLY Chapter 7: From the Inside Brain Crash: Wings “I am an Archive”: Ruff.- Chapter 8: Inside (and) Out “Who exactly am I?”: The Father.- PART IV: HUMAN. RESOURCES.- Chapter 9: Memory. Loss. Or, Understanding Memory (for Dummies).- Chapter 10: Family Affairs Sign on the Dot(ty)ed Line: Dot Brief me on this: Our Mother’s Brief Affair.- Chapter 11: Ready for Prime Time: Marjorie Prime.- Chapter 12: Cellular Data.- Chapter 13: No. Regrets. Wav(erly)ing Goodbye: The Waverly Gallery Humans. Resources.: The Humans.- Chapter 14: Who Cares?.