On Spectatorship

This volume should be understood in the context of the "postdramatic" and "postspectacular" paradigms that have put into question traditional concepts regarding representation and role of the spectator in the creation of meaning, and which have also placed the spotlight on the importance of performativity.

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Anxo Abuín González is Full Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He currently serves as the main researcher of the PERFORMA Group on contemporary theatricalities. His areas of expertise comprise performance studies, intermediality, and adaptation studies. His most recent monograph is entitled Fuera del escenario: teatralidades alternativas en la España actual.

Eduardo Pérez-Rasilla is Professor of Literature at the University Carlos III de Madrid. He currently works as a researcher with the PERFORMA Group on contemporary theatricalities. He specializes in contemporary Spanish drama and performance studies. He recently co-published Fuera del escenario: teatralidades alternativas en la España actual.

Klappentext

This volume should be understood in the context of the "postdramatic" and "postspectacular" paradigms that have questioned traditional concepts regarding the representation and the role of the spectator in the creation of meaning and that have also emphasized the importance of performativity as a strategy enabling new scenic perspectives. It therefore dealswith a new "expansive" textuality that relates to the "social turn" in theatrical and artistic practices, embodied in the diffusion of interventionist, collaborative, dialogical or participative forms. These dissonant and anti-hegemonic forms can be located in the civic commitment that has characterized the Spanish stage in recent years. In this volume, the reader will find discussions of the most important figures of recent Spanish theatre, i.e. writers and companies whose work has contributed decisively to the reconfiguration of the role of the spectator, , including Los Torreznos, Angélica Liddell, Roger Bernat, La Ribot, Antonio Fernández Lera, Rodrigo García, El Canto de la Cabra, Laila Ripoll, Mariano Llorente, Andrés Lima, Pablo Remón, Álex Rigola, La Fura dels Baus, and A Panadaría.

Inhalt

Catharsis, Neo-catharsis, Post-catharsis: Tragic Consciousness and Ethical Ambiguities in Contemporary Theatre

The Ignorant Actor: The Audience as an Agent of (Non-)knowledge

Public Feminism: Towards a Real Feminist Spectatorship

The Liberating Violence at the End of the Performance: A Time for the Spectator

Intermedial Spectatorship

From Watchers to Walkers: Spectatorship in Contemporary Spanish Promenade Theatre

Pedagogies of the Spectator - How Not to Teach People How to See Theatre

Insulting the Spectator - A Principle in Angélica Liddell's Theatrical Poetics

Confronting Affect in the Theatre of Angélica Liddell: Rage and Indignation in the Trilogy of Acts of Resistance against Death

Leaping into the Arena. Extras, Spontaneous, and Delegated Performance in the Work of La Ribot

New Spectators for a Classic: Towards the Dispositive Please, continue (Hamlet), by Roger Bernat and Yan Duyvendak (2011)

Poetics of the Viewer. Perspectives of the Director: Andrés Lima, Álex Rigola, Alfredo Sanzol and Pablo Remón

Audiences' Transformative Potential: A Performing Arts Journey from Madrid to Medellín

Getting the President to Clean up. Satire and Parody of Power in Las que limpian (The Chambermaids), by A Panadaría