Title Madness in contemporary British theatre : resistances and representations / Jon Venn

Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021] ©2021

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Description 1 online resource Contents Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Bibliography -- 2 Psychiatric Power in the Contemporary Asylum: The Diagnostic Gaze and the Practical Critique -- Introduction -- Diagnosis, Realism and the Reality of the Asylum -- Foucault and the Practical Critique -- The Roadmap to Resistance and Pluralism -- Seeing Patriarchy and Seeing Psychiatry in Sarah Daniel's Head-Rot Holiday -- The Multiplicity of Interstices -- The Failure of Tactics -- The Failure and Necessity of Female Solidarity -- Diagnosis Through Language and Race in Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange The Multivalence of Hegemony in Blue/Orange -- Language and Power in Blue/Orange -- The Spectacle of the Body of the 'Mad Person' -- The Political Construction of Christopher -- The Dispersed Mad Body in Lucy Prebble's The Effect -- The Mad Person in the White Coat: Uncertainties in Psychiatric Power -- The Sane in the Asylum, the Subjected Body of the 'Mad Person' -- A Visit to the Madhouse -- The Hospital Bed and the Question of Care -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 3 Hearing Voices, Seeing Visions: Hallucination, Space and Mad Experience -- Introduction Mad Experience, Hallucination, Theatre and Space -- Radical Spatialities and Radical Spaces -- Uncertain Meanings and the Family in The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland -- Open Dialogue, Therapy, Representation -- Tolerating Uncertainty -- The Family Show -- Hallucination: Family and Madness Coming Together -- Away with the Fairies: Globalization, Madness and the Fairytale in The Skriker -- Fairy of Nature or Madness: A Confusion of Meanings -- Far, Far, Away: Playing with the Fairytale -- Away with the Fairies: The Magical and the Real in Material Space Madness Through Magical Thinking -- Smoke in Your Eyes: Spaces of Hallucination, Intersectionality and Invisible Violence in Debbie Tucker green's nut -- Smoke and Light: Invisible Violence in nut -- Realism, the Ex-Wife, Gender and Madness -- Intersectionality and Space -- New Spatialities of Madness: The Possibility of Solidarity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4 Other Lives and Radical Perspectives: Witnessing the Suicide, Witnessing the Mad -- Introduction -- Suicidology: Durkheim, Sociology and Politicized Accounts -- Ethical Relations to the Individual Suicide Event The Possibility of Witnessing -- Witnessing and Performance -- Witnessing and Suicide in Performance -- Victim, Perpetrator, Bystander: Seeing the Witness in 4.48 Psychosis -- Testimony: Sight and Light -- Psychiatry and the Absence of the Witness -- The Theatre and the Audience, Possibilities of Sight and Witnessing -- What's My Motivation? The Implications of Engagement in David Greig's Fragile -- Within the Leap, Precarity, Interaction -- Multiplicities of Suicide Within the Leap -- What's My Motivation: Suicide and Audience Interaction -- Witnessing and the Self-Reflexive Gaze Summary This book considers the representation of madness in contemporary British theatre, examining the rich relationship between performance and mental health, and questioning how theatre can potentially challenge dominant understandings of mental health. Carefully, it suggests what it means to represent madness in theatre, and the avenues through which such representations can become radical, whereby theatre can act as a site of resistance. Engaging with the heterogeneity of madness, each chapter covers different attributes and logics, including: the constitution and institutional structures of the contemporary asylum; the cultural idioms behind hallucination; the means by which suicide is apprehended and approached; how testimony of the mad person is interpreted and encountered. As a study that interrogates a wide range of British theatre across the past 30 years, and includes a theoretical interrogation of the politics of madness, this is a crucial work for any student or researcher, across disciplines, considering the politics of madness and its relationship to performance. Dr. Jon Venn works as Teaching Fellow in Drama at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research interests include contemporary British theatre, the politics of madness, and critical suicide studies. His work has appeared in The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science and the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 10, 2021) Subject English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism English drama -- 21st century -- History and criticism Mentally ill in literature. Mental illness in literature. Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century English drama Mental illness in literature Mentally ill in literature Theater Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9783030797829 3030797821

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