'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)
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REF.SCR2
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English

Publication/Creation date

2011

No of pages

260

ISBN / ISSN

9780415404426

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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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Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment

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