Naming Theatre: Demonstrative Diagnosis in Performance (Performance Interventions)

✍ Scribed by James Frieze

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Series: Performance Interventions
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Closely reading a range of performance work from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Naming Theatre is a ground-breaking study of theater's growing obsession with technologies and effects of naming. How do theater-makers such as Ping Chong, Anne Bogart, Suzan-Lori Parks, Forced Entertainment, Lightwork, Ridiculusmus, Theodora Skipitares, Paula Vogel, and Riot Group intervene in naming practices across domains such as medicine, political activism, philosophy, horror films, television and print journalism, anthropology, advertising and brand development, semiotics, military training, and genetics?

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
1 Introduction: Improper Naming......Page 10
2 Authorship: A Trick of the I......Page 38
3 Assimilation: Sounding Through the Surface......Page 58
4 Demonstration: Illustrative Irony......Page 82
5 Diagnosis: Putting Medical History Under the Knife......Page 104
6 Programming: The Designated Blueprint......Page 119
7 Disclosure: Transcript and Testimony......Page 137
8 Monstrosity: Branding the Phatic......Page 151
9 Graphting: Plotting the Body as Puzzle......Page 164
10 Supplement: Naming Critical Acts......Page 176
Notes......Page 194
Bibliography......Page 208
B......Page 215
C......Page 216
F......Page 217
H......Page 218
L......Page 219
N......Page 220
P......Page 221
S......Page 222
V......Page 223
Z......Page 224