Electronic reproduction. Basingstoke, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Mode of access:World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Title from title screen (viewed on Oct. 6, 2009). Access may berestricted to users at subscribing institutions
Performance, Ethics and Spectatorship in a Global Age is an innovative book that makes a significant contribution to performance studies scholarship. It undertakes a detailed investigation intothe relationshipbetween ethics and spectatorship in and in response to contemporary performance. Considering spectators both within and beyond the theatre, the text explores the ways in which they are stimulated or provoked by performance to address ethical questions about their roles as spectatorsand as citizens in a fraught media-saturated landscape. Through a detailed engagement with five internationally-acclaimed performances, this book talks about both the emotional and intellectual responses generated by politically-inflected work. It explores the feelings of awe, shock, delight and unsettlement that good performance engenders, and it traces the process spectators go through in makingsense of those emotions through extended ethical reflection
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. Situating the Spectator -- 2. Genesi: The Spectator and 'Useless Suffering'? -- 3. The Career Highlights of the MAMU: Alterity and Shame-- 4. Sandakan Threnody: Testimony and the Dangers of Polyphony -- 5. 'The Refugee', Empathy and Participation: Ariane Mnouchkine and Theatredu Soleil's Le Dernier Caravanserail (Odyssees) -- 6. Otherness and Responsibility in Three Tales by Steve Reich and Beryl Korot and Nature'sLittle Helpers by Patricia Piccinini
