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Rethinking Roland Barthes Through Performance

A Desire for Neutral Dramaturgy

Harry Robert Wilson Will Daddario

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English
Methuen Drama
15 June 2023
Through a series of reflections from internationally renowned performance-makers and contextualising essays from leading theatre and performance scholars, this is the first book to map the influence of Roland Barthes on performance.

The contributions are framed through Barthes’s notion of The Neutral – the suspension of binary choice that offers a welcome antidote to the political deadlock of our present moment. They cover the breadth of Barthes’s work from Mythologies (1957) to ‘The Death of the Author’ (1967), A Lover’s Discourse (1977), Camera Lucida (1980), to the more recently available lecture courses at the Collège de France.

Together, they capture and rethink a range of Barthes’s preoccupations, from his early writing on myths and meaning to personal reflections on love, loss and desire, and interrogate the intersections between Barthes’s work and contemporary theatre and performance.

This book invites readers to approach Barthes’s writing from a breadth of creative-critical perspectives, to become more aware of the importance of his late thought for thinking through a range of dramaturgical forms, and to become more familiar with the work of internationally significant performance practitioners.

Edited by:   ,
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 138mm, 
ISBN:   9781350330849
ISBN 10:   1350330841
Series:   Thinking Through Theatre
Pages:   264
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Contemporary Performance After Roland Barthes – Harry Robert Wilson Part 1 – A Dictionary of Twinklings 1. 5 Theses for a Dramaturgy of Performance – Matthew Goulish and Lin Hixson 2. Ceaselessly Positing and Evaporating Meaning: A Performance Score – Pablo Pakula 3. Looking Through Old Photographs – Andy Field and Deborah Pearson 4. Recipes / Addendums / Souvenirs – greenandowens (Katheryn Owens and Chris Green) 5. Ways to Submit – Ira Brand 6. All the Sense of Real: A World of Wrestling – Simon Bayly 7. Practising Neutral Dramaturgy(ies) – Will Daddario and Harry Robert Wilson Part 2 – Rethinking Roland Barthes, Theatre, Performance 8. We’ve never met but we may have fought – Simon Bayly and Ira Brand 9. For the Lover(s) of Dramaturgy: on Roland Barthes’ Amateur – Swen Steinhäuser 10. The Disturbance of One System by Another – Claudia Kappenberg 11. Baffling Dramaturgy: Between the Obvious and Obtuse – Mischa Twitchin 12. Choreography, Capturing and Barthes’ Notion of the Punctum – Sandra Parker 13. Body and Mask: Dramaturgies of the Face in Roland Barthes – Michael Bachmann 14. Tracing Barthes’ Eastern Theatres: Empire of Signs and the Staging of Individual Cultural Interpretation – Pamela Genova 15. Unraveling Textual Soundscapes: Reading Barthes’ ‘The Grain of the Voice’ through Söderberg’s Entangled Phrases and Linehan’s Body of Work – Rosa Lambert

Harry Robert Wilson is an artist and researcher based in Dundee, UK. He was recently awarded the Digital Thinker in Residence award at the National Theatre of Scotland, UK (2018-19). He has a PhD from the University of Glasgow, UK, in which he explored performance and photography through his own creative practice. Will Daddario is a teacher, scholar, grief worker and itinerant philosopher who currently resides in Asheville, USA. He co-edits the Performance Philosophy book series and online journal.

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