ABSTRACT

If theatre is a way of seeing, an event onstage but also a fleeting series of moments; not a copy or double but more vitally metamorphosis, transformation, and change, how might we speak to – and of – it? How do we envision and frame a fluid reality that moves faster than we can write?

Arranged over two parts, 'Figurations' and 'Translations', Essays on Theatre and Change reflects on the animal, history, doubling, translation, and the performative potential of writing itself. Each fictocritical essay weaves between voices, genres and contexts to consider what theatre might be, offering a 'partial object' rather than a complete theory. Leaving the page radically open to its reader, Essays on Theatre and Change is a dazzling, multi-lensed account of what it is to think and write on theatre.

part I|99 pages

Figurations

chapter 2|11 pages

The memory of prehistory

chapter 3|12 pages

Not Dolly!

chapter 4|11 pages

Silent and listening it hangs over the sea

chapter 7|10 pages

Feindre (feinte de feinte feinte)

chapter 8|11 pages

The fissure of absence