Theatre/Performance Historiography Time, Space, Matter [Hardcover]

How do the ethical implications of writing theatrical histories complicate the historiographical imperative in our current sociopolitical context? This volume investigates a historiography whose function is to be a mode of thinking and exposes the inner contradictions in social and ideological organizations of historical subjects.Introduction PART I: THE SPACE OF FORMATIONS 1. Performing Speciation: The Nature/Culture Divide at The Creation Museum; Angenette Spalink and Scott Magelssen 2. A Ridiculous Space: Considering the Historiography of the Theatre of the Ridiculous; Kelly Aliano 3. The Evolving Process of an Historical View: Aleks Sierz and British Theatre in the 1990s; Yael Zarhy-Levo 4. Latino/a dramaturgy as Historiography; Patricia Ybarra PART II: TEMPORAL MATTER 5. The Design of Theatrical Wonder in Roy Mitchell's The Chester Mysteries; Patricia Badir 6. Performing Ruhe: Police, Taste, and the Archive; Jan Lazardzig 7. The Materiality of Memory: Touching, Seeing, and Being the Past in Patricio Guzm?n's Chile, Memoria Obstinada; Kaitlin McNally-Murphy PART III: MATERIAL SPACES 8. Adorno, Baroque, Gardens, Ruzzante: Rearranging Theatre Historiography; Will Daddario 9. A Critique of Historio-Scenography: Space and Time in Joseph-Fran?ois-Louis Grobert's De l'ex?cution dramatique; Pannill Camp 10. The Ground of (Im)Potential: Historiography and the Earthquake; Gwyneth Shanks 11. Thinking the Space(s) of Historiography: Latina/o Ethnicity Theatre; Jon D. RossiniKelly Aliano, Graduate School, CUNY, USAPatricia Ybarra, Brown University, USAYael Zarhy-Levo, Tel Aviv University, IsraelAngenette Spalink, Bowling Green State University, USAScott Magelssen, University of Washington, USAPatricia Badir, University of British Columbia, CanadaPannill Camp, Washington University in St. Louis, USAKaitlin McNally-Murphy, New York University, USAWill Daddario, University of Minnesota, USAJan Lazardzig, University of Chicago, USAJon D. Rossini, University of California, Davil: