Theatre as Voyeurism

Theatre as Voyeurism (re)defines voyeurism as an 'exchange' between performers and audience members, privileging pleasure (erotic and aesthetic) as a crucial factor in contemporary theatre. This intriguing group of essays focuses on artists such as Jan Fabre, Romeo Castellucci, Ann Liv Young, Olivier Dubois and Punchdrunk.

The volume offers rich critical engagements with this theatrical voyeur by asking what pleasures, intersubjective relations, and sensorial dynamics might emerge from such a model of spectatorship. Theatre as Voyeurism succeeds at articulating an exciting and novel theoretical frame and is a valuable collection for any scholar interested in spectatorship, the auteur, and/or the erotics of performance. (Matthew C. Stone, Theatre Journal, Vol. 59 (4), December, 2017)

Autorentext
Fiona Bannon, University of Leeds, UK Luk Van den Dries, University of Antwerp, Belgium Laurens De Vos, University of Amsterdam, Holland William McEvoy, University of Sussex, UK Eleni Papalexiou, University of the Peloponnese, Nafplion, Greece Daniël Ploeger, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK David Shearing, University of Leeds, UK Tim Stephenson, University of Leeds, UK Aaron C. Thomas, Dartmouth College, USA

Inhalt
Introduction: Staring at the Forbidden: Legitimising Voyeurism; George Rodosthenous PART I: VOYEURISM AND DIRECTING THE GAZE 1. Always Looking Back at the Voyeur: Jan Fabre's Extreme Acts on Stage; Laurens de Vos 2. The Dramaturgies of the Gaze: Strategies of Vision and Optical Revelations in the Theatre of Romeo Castellucci and the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio; Eleni Papalexiou PART II: VOYEURISM IN SPACE 3. Intimacy, Immersion and the Desire to Touch: The Voyeur Within; David Shearing 4. In Between the Visible and the Hidden: Modalities of Seeing in Site-specific Performance; William McEvoy PART III: VOYEURISM AND ACTS OF WATCHING 5. The Pleasure of Looking Behind Curtains: Naked Bodies from Titian to Fabre and LeRoy; Luk Van Den Dries 6. Baring All on Stage: Active Encounters with Voyeurism, Performance Aesthetics and 'Absorbed Acts of Seeing'; Fiona Bannon PART IV: VOYEURISM AND EXHIBITING THE BODY 7. Thinking critical/Looking Sexy: a naked white male body in performance; Daniël Ploeger 8. Viewing the Pornographic Theatre: Explicit Voyeurism, Artaud, and Ann Liv Young's Cinderella; Aaron C. Thomas PART V: VOYEURISM AND NAKED BODIES 9. 'Music for the eyes' in Hair: Tracing the history of the naked singing body on stage; Tim Stephenson 10. Outlying Islands as theatre of voyeurism: Ornithologists, naked bodies and the 'pleasure of peeping'; George Rodosthenous Index