Why we like (fake) reality
The attraction to the real that I have observed anecdotally in audiences arises, says David Boyle, because for the last century or so we have lived in an increasingly artificial […]
Another View on Theatre Animals
This invariably happens when I am in the reading phase of a research project. I will encounter an article or chapter or book that from the library catalogue sounds like […]
Martha Henry’s ferret
The 2012 production of Cymbeline at the Stratford Festival reminds me of the last time I saw Cymbeline at the Festival. It is 2004 and I am sitting in the […]
What Wittgenstein’s Duck/Rabbit has to do with theatrical duality
On the recommendation of my colleague Grahame Renyk, I finally got around to reading “Infiction and Outfiction: The Role of Fiction in Theatrical Performance” by David Z. Saltz. (Full citation […]
Verbatim theatre: Porte Parole’s “Seeds”
Certainly a project that takes the performance of the real on stage as its primary point of departure must be interested in verbatim theatre. (Verbatim theatre refers to the practice […]
Real autobiographical objects in a glass box
Yesterday, on the suggestion of my colleague Ted Little, I visited the Centre d’Histoire de Montreal in Old Montreal. There, the section “We Are Here/Nous Sommes Ici” presents the final […]
Antigone et les carres rouges at the FTA
“Who is Antigone for you today?” This is the central question posed by the company MOTUS of Rimini, Italy producers of Alexis, Una Tragedia Greca, presented in Montreal at the […]
Preamble with Questions
At a very basic level, the negotiation between the two synchronous worlds of the actual and the fictional forms the foundation of what makes theatre theatre, distinguishing performance from life. […]
Knowledge mobilzation and a working journal
Taking my cue from two of my social media savvy colleagues — Marlis Schweitzer (Theatre Studies, York U) and Jill Scott (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Queen’s University), I have decided […]
Upsurges of the Real: a performance research blog 