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Performance and Real Relationships

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Family, Kinship and Love in Contemporary Theatre

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvIldikó Rippel,Mark Taylor-Batty,Enoch Brater

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This book argues that staging real relationships and collaborating with family members has the potential to rupture theatrical representation by producing an effect of authenticity.Drawing on psychoanalytic theory (Lacan, Kristeva), poststructuralist critique (Derrida), and feminist and queer theory, the author explores how theatre becomes a method of doing family: a set of embodied, affective and performative practices rather than a fixed institution.The book is richly informed by case studies, supported by production photographs, including the German company SheShePop performing Testament (2010) with their fathers; Liz Clarke performing I Tattooed My Baby (2013) with her infant daughter; Zoo Indigo’s Under the Covers (2009) and Blueprint (2012), performed with their children and mothers; Bryony Kimmings performing with her partner in Fake it Till you Make it (2015); and First Trimester by Queer performance maker Krishna Istha performing alongside their partner and extended ‘chosen family’.The chapters include interwoven interviews with theatre practitioners, exploring their experience of performing with family members, and offering fascinating insights into the processes, ethics and methodologies of doing so. The exploration of love and family are enriched by the author’s own autobiographical reflections, written in a poetic mode of auto theory.Ultimately, the book reveals how real relationships on stage can generate empathy, challenge normative kinship structures, and invite audiences to rethink care, love, and the many ways we do family.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-08-06
Mått138 x 216 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMethuen Drama Engage
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350448094

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Ildikó Rippel is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for the BA Theatre, Acting and Performance programme at the University of Worcester, UK. Her performance research examines familial theatre and dramaturgies of migration. She has co-authored articles on maternal performance in Performance Research (2017) and on dramaturgies of migration in Critical Stages (2020, 2022). She is Co-Artistic Director of Zoo Indigo, an experimental theatre company whose practice blends autobiographical material, maternal and familial performance and a playful interrogation of cultural identity.

Lists of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on TextIntroduction(Personal and Political) Kinship in Crisis Familial Performance Structure of the Book Theoretical Frameworks Chapter 1: Ruptures of the Real – Authenticity and Real People in PerformanceIntroduction: Real Relationships Beyond ‘Non-Professional’: Naming the Real Performer The Return to Authenticity Metamodernism and Familial Performance Acting Techniques and Authenticity The Closure of Representation and The Theatre of Cruelty The Real – A Theoretical Framework Conclusion: Familial Theatre as Transformative Practice Chapter 2: Familial Theatre and ChildrenIntroduction: Parental Performance The Gesture of the Child Infant Presence in Performance: Tragedia Endogonidia The Maternal/Parental Encounter Case StudiesLiz Clarke: I Tattooed my Baby, and I am Bitter about Glitter Zoo Indigo: Under the Covers Conclusion· Familial Performance as ‘Doing Motherhood’InterviewGrace Surman and Gary Winters with their daughter Hope Winters Chapter 3: Parental Performance and Metamodern Micro-NarrativesIntroduction: Embodied Micro-Narratives in Metamodern Theatre Embodied Family: Kinesthetic Empathy in Familial Performance Affective Labour and Parental Performance Case StudiesUrsula Martinez: A Family Outing (1998) She She Pop: Testament (2010), Rite of Spring (2014) Zoo Indigo: Blueprint (2012) ConclusionFamilial Micro-Narratives InterviewELOINA on HIGH STEAKS (2023) Chapter 4: Love, Event and Queer KinshipIntroduction: The Event of Love Love as Theatrical Event Case Study 1Bryony Kimmings: Fake it Till You Make it (2015) · Queer Love and KinshipCase StudiesRosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill: The Making of Pinocchio (2022) Krishna Istha: First Trimester (2023) Conclusion· The Event of Love as Transformative ForceInterviewDemi Nandhra on Life is No Laughing Matter (2019) Chapter 5: Virtual Family and Familial Others – Theatre in the Pandemic· Introduction: The Familial in CrisisThe (Inter)Face of the Other: Lockdown and Ethical Responsibility Pandemic Performance of Family Case StudiesTracy Breathnach: Motherswitch (2020) Tina Hofman: Ananas Is Always Ananas But Pineapple in English (2021) Gob Squad: Show Me a Good Time (2021) Conclusion· Healing Through Encounter – Performing Pandemic Trauma · InterviewDaniel Oliver and Frauke Requardt on Dadderrs – the Lockown Telly Show (2020) AfterwordFamilial Performance and Radical Empathy Born Slippy – Fluidity of the Familial Closure ReferencesIndexCopyright Page