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Madness in Contemporary British Theatre Jon Venn

Madness in Contemporary British Theatre By Jon Venn

Madness in Contemporary British Theatre by Jon Venn

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Summary

This book considers the representation of madness in contemporary British

theatre, examining the rich relationship between performance and mental health,

and questioning how theatre can potentially challenge dominant understandings

of mental health.

Madness in Contemporary British Theatre Summary

Madness in Contemporary British Theatre: Resistances and Representations by Jon Venn

This book considers the representation of madness in contemporary British

theatre, examining the rich relationship between performance and mental health,

and questioning how theatre can potentially challenge dominant understandings

of mental health. Carefully, it suggests what it means to represent madness in

theatre, and the avenues through which such representations can become

radical, whereby theatre can act as a site of resistance.

Engaging with the heterogeneity of madness, each chapter covers different

attributes and logics, including: the constitution and institutional structures of

the contemporary asylum; the cultural idioms behind hallucination; the means by

which suicide is apprehended and approached; how testimony of the mad person

is interpreted and encountered.

As a study that interrogates a wide range of British theatre across the past 30

years, and includes a theoretical interrogation of the politics of madness, this is

a crucial work for any student or researcher, across disciplines, considering the

politics of madness and its relationship to performance.


About Jon Venn

Dr. Jon Venn works as Teaching Fellow in Drama at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research interests include contemporary British theatre, the politics of madness, and critical suicide studies. His work has appeared in The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science and the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapters

1. Introduction

2. Psychiatric Power in the Contemporary Asylum: The Diagnostic Gaze and the Practical Critique

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Seeing Patriarchy and Seeing Madness in Sarah Daniels' Head-Rot Holiday

2.3 Diagnosis through Language and Race in Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange

2.4 The Dispersed Mad Body in Lucy Prebble's The Effect

2.5 Conclusion

3. Hearing Voices, Seeing Visions: Hallucination, Space, and Mad Experience

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Uncertain Meanings and the Family in Ridiculusmus' The Eradication of
Schizophrenia in Western Lapland

3.3 Away with the Fairies: Globalization, Madness and the Fairytale in Caryl
Churchill's The Skriker

3.4 Smoke in your Eyes: Spaces of Hallucination, Intersectionality, and Invisible
Violence in debbie tucker green's nut

3.5 Conclusion

4. Other Lives and Radical Perspectives: Witnessing the Suicide, Witnessing the Mad

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Victim, Perpetrator, Bystander: Seeing the Witness in 4.48 Psychosis

4.3 What's my Motivation? The Implications of Engagement in David Greig's
Fragile

4.4 Ghosted Autopsies in Analogue's Beachy Head

4.5 Conclusion

5. Madness and the Ethical Encounter in Autobiographical Performance

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The Uncertain Hand in James Leadbitter's Mental

5.3 Confession of an Expert: Peas and Comedy in Bobby Baker's How to Live

5.4 The Obscured Face of the Volunteer in Bryony Kimmings' and Tim Grayburn's
Fake It 'Til You Make It

5.5 Conclusion

6. Conclusion

Additional information

NPB9783030797812
9783030797812
3030797813
Madness in Contemporary British Theatre: Resistances and Representations by Jon Venn
Jon Venn
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Hardback
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2021-08-31
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