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Featuring contributions from international scholars, the first volume of Theatre, Performance and the Fantastic interrogates the theatrical presentation of fantastic imagery – from gothic horror and science fiction to magic, myth and more – as a key dramatic tool for addressing complex sociopolitical issues.
Offering a ground-breaking examination of a rich yet under-examined field by rooting itself in the affective and embodied qualities of the discipline, Theatre, Performance and the Fantastic interrogates the fantastic as both a dramatic tool and as a sociocultural phenomenon. The first volume – Stages and Scripts – focuses on an array of playwrights including Alistair McDowall, Rabindranath Tagore, Edward Bond, Katori Hall, Joël Pommerat and Migdalia Cruz, while considering how their work is interpreted through specific performance strategies such as casting, direction and design.
From science fiction, fantasy and gothic horror to superheroes, folklore and fairy tales, fantastic narratives proliferate throughout print and screen media, enjoying popular acclaim and academic interest. Intruding upon and departing from normative depictions of reality, these fictions challenge dominant socio-political orthodoxy by proposing alternative forms of agency and subjectivity. Yet while scholarship dedicated to the literary, cinematic and televisual fantastic continues to accumulate, its presence within contemporary theatre and performance remains largely unexplored.
Featuring contributions from an array of scholars who locate and interpret the fantastic within a variety of regional, political and cultural contexts, Theatre, Performance and the Fantastic, Volume 1: Stages and Scripts promises a fresh, thought-provoking and rewarding engagement with a subject long overdue critical attention.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Staging the Fantastic, Ian Farnell (University of Warwick, UK)
Section 1: Bodies in time
1. Strange temporalities, everyday violence: The continuum of gender-based violence in the plays of Alistair McDowall's and Vicky Featherstone, Alex Watson (BIMM Institute, Brighton, UK)
2. 'History done and undone': Time travel and the fantastic in Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, Ben Poore (University of York, UK)
3. Fantastic Ageing, Siân Adiseshiah (Loughborough University, UK)
Section 2: Crossing Borders
4. Forging identity through travel: A critical reading of Rabindranath Tagore'sThe Land of Cards, Madhumita Roy (Adamas University, India)
5. Being-now/here: hauntalogical ghosts and The Spirits Play, Ryan-Ashleigh Boey (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
6. Resisting exoticization through the fantastic: the subversive figure of the WomAnimal in Migdalia Cruz'sFur, Magda Barouta (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Section 3: Reimagining the real
7. Walking through walls: repositioning the fantasy-reality binary in Edward Bond'sTune,Kate Katafiasz (Newman University, UK)
8. Genre and gender trouble in Joël Pommerat's Contes et légendes, Aloysia Rousseau (Sorbonne University, France)
9. Reinvigorating reality through the material: the staging of science fiction in Li Jianjun's World on a Wire, Jasmine [Yueming] Li (University of California, USA)
10. Philip Quesne's Cosmic Drama: Fantasies of Possible Futures, Stefania Lodi Rizzini (independent scholar)
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Product details
| Published | 18 Feb 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781350511927 |
| Imprint | Methuen Drama |
| Illustrations | 02 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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