Artist-tyrants and aspiring divinities
In a previous blog about Liz Tomlin’s fantastic book Acts and Apparitions (recently released in paperback), I quoted Tomlin’s challenge to the creators of radical performance: “In a world where we […]
Tag Archives: postdramatic
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 […]
The Postdramatic Value of Amateur Aesthetics
In my last post, I responded to a paper by Matt Jones that was presented at the recent CATR/SQET conference in Ottawa. Continuing that trend, here are some thoughts/questions inspired […]
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 […]
Upsurges of the Real: a performance research blog 