Viral Dramaturgies

Offers an international perspective on how HIV and AIDS has affected twenty-first century performance

Brings together a variety of voices to provide an astonishing range of contexts and perspectives

Shows how performance can respond and intervene in a public and political health crisis

Autorentext

Alyson Campbell is Associate Professor in Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia, and is a theatre director and dramaturg.

Dirk Gindt is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University, Sweden, and has a PhD in Theatre Studies.

Inhalt

1. Alyson Campbell and Dirk Gindt: Viral Dramaturgies: HIV and AIDS in Performance in the Twenty-First Century.- 2. Alyson Campbell: GL RYA (w)hole Lot of Woman Trouble: HIV Dramaturgies and Feral Pedagogies.- 3. Janelle Fawkes and Elena Jeffreys: Staging Decriminalisation: Sex Worker Performance and HIV.- 4. Katharine Low, Matilda Mudyavanhu and Shema Tariq: 'The Press / Supress / Our stories of happiness / They choose to define us / As suffering headliners': Theatre-Making with Women Living with HIV.- 5. Peter Dickinson: 'Still (Mighty) Real': HIV and AIDS, Queer Public Memories and the Intergenerational Drag Hail.- 6. Marc Arthur: AIDS Memorialisation: A Biomedical Performance.- 7. Stephen Farrier: Re-membering AIDS, Dis-membering Form.- 8. Jayson A. Morrison: Finding 'creative rebellious gay boys' in the US AIDS Archive and Repertoire with the Aid of Bakhtinian Centrifugal Tendencies.- 9. Virginia Anderson: Performing Interventions: The Politics and Theatre of China's AIDS Crisis in the Early Twenty-First Century.- 10. Sarahleigh Castelyn: Choreographing HIV and AIDS in Contemporary Dance in South Africa.- 11. Dirk Gindt: National Performances of Crying: Neoliberal Sentimentality and the Cultural Commodification of HIV and AIDS in Sweden.- 12. Ola Johansson: Prefigurative Performance in American and African AIDS Activism.- 13. Jacqueline Kauli: Awareness Community Theatre: A Local Response to HIV and AIDS in Papua New Guinea.- 14. Ivan Bujan: Blue Is, Blue Does: A Performance about Truvada in Several Interactions.- 15. Sky Gilbert: AIDS Theatre in a 'Post-AIDS' Era: Reflections on My Recent Plays.- 16. Alyson Campbell and Jonathan Graffam: Blood, Shame, Resilience and Hope: Indigenous Theatre Maker Jacob Boehme's Blood on the Dance Floor.- 17. Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez: The Lazarus Effect: El SIDA/AIDS and Belated Mourning in Puerto Rican Theatre.- 18. Alyson Campbell and DirkGindt: Interview with Sarah Schulman: Corporate Culture, HIV Criminalisation, Historicising AIDS and the Role of Women in ACT UP.- Notes on Contributors.