'Performing Remains is a dazzling new study exploring the role of the fake, the false and the faux in contemporary performance. Rebecca Schneider argues passionately that performance can be engaged as what remains, rather than what disappears.
'Across seven essays, Schneider presents a forensic and unique examination of both contemporary and historical performance, drawing on a variety of elucidating sources including the "America" plays of Linda Mussman and Suzan-Lori Parks, performances of Maria Abramovic and Allison Smith, and the continued popular appeal of Civil War reenactments. Performing Remains questions the importance of representations throughout history and today, while boldly reassessing the ritual value of failure to recapture the past and recreate the "original."' (Excerpt from back cover)
'Across seven essays, Schneider presents a forensic and unique examination of both contemporary and historical performance, drawing on a variety of elucidating sources including the "America" plays of Linda Mussman and Suzan-Lori Parks, performances of Maria Abramovic and Allison Smith, and the continued popular appeal of Civil War reenactments. Performing Remains questions the importance of representations throughout history and today, while boldly reassessing the ritual value of failure to recapture the past and recreate the "original."' (Excerpt from back cover)
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Onsite
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publisher
Location code
REF.SCR2
Language
English
Keyword
Publication/Creation date
2011
No of pages
260
ISBN / ISSN
9780415404426
No of copies
1
Content type
monograph
Chapter headings
Reenactment and Relative Pain
Finding Faux Fathers
In the Meantime: Performance Remains
Poor Poor Theatre
Still Living
Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment
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