Beyond Failure

Tony Fisher is Reader in Theatre and Philosophy at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London. His monograph, Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500–1900: Democracy, Disorder and the State, was published in 2017. He is also co-editor (with Eve Katsouraki) of Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance and Radical Democracy (2017).Eve Katsouraki's research concerns the intersections of philosophy and performance, especially in relation to modernism, political performance and animals. She is an editor for the peer-reviewed journal Performance Philosophy and core-convenor for the international Performance Philosophy network. She co-edited (with Tony Fisher) the volume Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance and Radical Democracy (2017).

• 1. Introduction: Knowing FailureTony Fisher and Eve KatsourakiSECTION 1: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF FAILURE2. Carry on Camping?: Spectacle, Concealment and Failure in the Performance of PoliticsSimon Bayly3. What Chance Failure?Mischa Twitchin4. Subverting the System: Kent Monkman and the Cultural Politics of Performing ‘Two-Spiritedness’Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds5. Come Hear the Music Play: The Politics of Queer Failure and Practices of SurvivalJoe Parslow6. Asserting Afro German Subjectivity on the German StageMacelle MahalaSECTION 2: FAILURE AND PERFORMANCE 7. Anaesthesis: Dance Marathons and the Limits of SenseKélina Gotman8. Missing the Target: Emotion, Stoic Psychology and the ActorCormac PowerSECTION 3: THEATRE’S PHILOSOPHY OF FAILURE9. Theatre of the WorldlessTony Fisher10. Theatre’s Broken MiddleEve Katsouraki 11. What a Joke: Ruzzante’s Failed Attempt at the Good LifeWill DaddarioIndex