The readymade real: selectivity and the frame
Last weekend I had the privilege to attend the Festival of Original Theatre conference 2016 presented by the students at the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, Theatre and Performance […]
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Kissing cousins: Metatheatre and Postdramatic Irruptions of the Real
The call for proposals for the “Beyond the Postdramatic? The Stakes of Contemporary Performance” working group (organized by Shane Boyle, Matthew Cornish, and Brandon Woolf) at this year’s ASTR conference […]
The Pleasures of Opaque Remediation
Remediation, a term coined by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin in their book of the same title (1999), refers to “the representation of one medium in another medium” (45). Theatrical […]
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. […]
Upsurges of the Real: a performance research blog 