Theatre Responds to Social Trauma

Chasing the Demons

Buch | Hardcover

246 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-05321-9 (ISBN)

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This book is a collection of essays by playwrights, directors, devisers, scholars, and educators whose praxis involves representing, theorizing, and performing social trauma.

This book is a collection of chapters by playwrights, directors, devisers, scholars, and educators whose praxis involves representing, theorizing, and performing social trauma.

Chapters explore how psychic catastrophes and ruptures are often embedded in social systems of oppression and forged in zones of conflict within and across national borders. Through multiple lenses and diverse approaches, the authors examine the connections between collective trauma, social identity, and personal struggle. We look at the generational transmission of trauma, socially induced pathologies, and societal re-inscriptions of trauma, from mass incarceration to war-induced psychoses, from gendered violence through racist practices. Collective trauma may shape, protect, and preserve group identity, promoting a sense of cohesion and meaning, even as it shakes individuals through pain. Engaging with communities under significant stress through artistic practice offers a path towards reconstructing the meaning(s) of social trauma, making sense of the past, understanding the present, and re-visioning the future.

The chapters combine theoretical and practical work, exploring the conceptual foundations and the artists’ processes as they interrogate the intersections of personal grief and communal mourning, through drama, poetry, and embodied performance.

Ellen W. Kaplan is Professor of Acting and Directing at Smith College, a Fulbright Scholar, Fulbright Senior Specialist, an actress, director, and playwright.

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

PART I

Introduction

1. Theatre and Social Trauma: Introduction and Overview

Ellen W. Kaplan

2. The Story Before the Script: Documenting and testifying to trauma histories of incarcerated persons

Julie Kriegler

PART II

Exiles: Loss of Language, Loss of Home

3. Weaving Personal Trauma in Video Opera “THE WArDROBE”: Transdisciplinarity and Womanhood

Nerina Cocchi

4. Lampedusa Beach: A Voice from the Depths of the Sea

Anna Botta

5. Interview with playwright Lina Prosa

Anna Botta and Nerina Cocchi

6. The Theater of Arístides Vargas: Antidote Against Death

María Estela Harretche

7. Bearing Witness to the “Unspeakable”? Poetry writing in the aftermath of the Êzîdî Genocide

Mairead Smith

PART III

Theatre Companies Wrestle with Social Trauma

8. A Serpent’s Tale: The Work of El Teatro Indigena de la Sierra Tarahumara

Gabriel Harrell

9. Witness Theater: The Power of Embodied Storytelling

Sally Grazi-Shatzkes

10. Resistance: Theatre as Protest and Reckoning

Jean-Remy Monnay

11. Life Suspended: Theatre as Social Practice in Afghanistan

Abdul-Hakim Hashemi Hamidi

12. Contemporary Kenyan Theatre as a Response to the Traumas of Colonialism

Aroji Otieno

13. Community as Theatre: Shakespeare Festival in St. Louis and Community Partnerships

Mariah L. Richardson

14. Interviews with Dominic Dupont and Marjolaine Goldsmith of Theater of War

Ellen W. Kaplan

15. Trauma and Morality in Classical Greek Drama: Trauma and Authentic Accountability Before the Christian Era

Len Berkman

PART IV

Processes of Embodiment

16. Interview with Carol Gilligan

Ellen W. Kaplan

17. Interview with Trenda Loftin

Ellen W. Kaplan

18. Pedagogies of Embodied Healing: Devised Theatre and Reciprocal Empathy

Zoe Rose Kriegler-Wenk

PART V

Closing the Gaps: Social Trauma and Text

19. Empathy, Imagination, and Embodiment: Turning Document into Fiction

Alex Poppe

20. Calls to Action: Collaboration across Difference

Catherine Filloux

21. AFTERWORD

Ellen W. Kaplan

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
Zusatzinfo	13 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
ISBN-10	1-032-05321-6 / 1032053216
ISBN-13	978-1-032-05321-9 / 9781032053219
Zustand	Neuware