Studies in Theatre and Performance最新文献

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This editorial elaborates on the processes and practices of Open Call and its iteration as a print and online issue of Studies in Theatre and Performance. It offers a collaborative framing of the issue that includes the voices of its editors and peer reviewers, and suggests some possible pathways through the texts and artworks that comprise this special issue, which is titled open-call+response:

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This is a collaborative trans-atlantic meandering around our respective research fields, interjected with archival traces of our performances. Alongside us are The GUIDE, and #Sergina. The GUIDE is a survival praxis of how the Black identity performs in anticipation of being trapped in the gaze of being processed as other; a pedagogical deployment of research and critical theory from Black studies, Post-Colonial studies, and Black Feminist studies. #Sergina is a multi-bodied multi-locational drag queen who sings songs about love, lust, and loneliness in the digital age, alone and with others, performing on readymade platforms of Google Hangout, Skype, Zoom, Instagram and so on. What follows is a trans -racial -temporal -geographical edit of our side by side evaluation of where we are - or not.

We are calling this our Mixtape/ Shuffle Play.

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This offering is part 3 of 3 in Lou Sarabadzic’s series Making Sense, which re-visits the exploration of the physicality and materiality of language in her video work Traces (2021).

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This is part 1 of 3 of a conversation and a practice of listening about and speaking of composting grief. The exchange, between melissandre varin and Carmen Wong, was initiated via voice notes, voicemails, and WhatsApp recordings and was transcribed and composed/composted visually with illustrations by N. Drofiak.

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This contribution is a photo-essay comprising ten images of author’s actions (and ongoing project, Free Bitch / Fr33 b1tch) during lockdown in 2021 on Gadigal Land, Warrang.

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This article reflects on the special interests, friendships, tastes, and pleasures of those who are perceived as deviating from the norm, are labelled “activists”, and are expected to educate others on topics surrounding their own communities or marginalisations. This article creates a space of honesty in which one can exist beyond marginalisations.

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Place can shape and influence audience behavior during a performance. This is especially noticeable in the site-specific immersive theatre model, where the performance occurs in a non-theatre setting and audiences have an active role. In this article, we argue that ‘place schema’ – a term from the interdisciplinary field of environment-behavior studies – provides a conceptual framework for better understanding audience behavior within immersive theatre environments. We know how to behave in a theatre building because we have codified experiences regarding the environment in our minds called place schemata. They help us process spatial information, predict what is likely to happen, and decide how to take action accordingly. However, if this spatial information does not match the ‘theatre schema’ we have in our minds, as is often the case in an immersive theatre setting, we would need to update our existing schema. In this article, we examine Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More (2011 New York production, which is still running) to evaluate how audiences carry the behavioral rules of traditional theatre schema into immersive theatres and consider how expectations, roles, and rules of place influence the relationship between the audience and setting.

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A windy day in May in a small village Velo Grabje on top of the hill of the island of Hvar. A small, centuries old, chapel and a dry, dusty island’s landscape is the only mise en scene for the performance of the medieval saint play which is just about to take place in front of around 40 visitors. As the wind carries their entrance song and waves their costumes, long black and white black tunics, a group of well-coordinated men of all ages, deliver a well know story of the life and suffering of Saint Lawrence. They deftly pronounce the verses from the sixteenth century, largely incomprehensive to the contemporary ear. Yet the costumes which in a plain and accessible way distinguish the good from the evil personae (the Christians in white tunics, the pagans in black ones, obviously); the overemphasised gestures of these characters; along with the stage directions read aloud; render the plot easy to follow. The fact that for many visitors (me included), this is not the first time they witness the performance, but one in many stagings which they will have seen, only makes the apprehension of the plot easier. This is their play!