Examines the phenomenon of repetition in performances from a range of artists, from Haranczak/Navarre and Marco Berrettini. Draws on the writings of Samuel Beckett, Roland Barthes, Gertrude Stein, Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Zizek Explores the relationship between speech, movement and repetition

Autorentext

Eirini Kartsaki is Teaching Fellow in Drama and Performance Studies at Queen Mary University of London, as well as a writer and performance practitioner. Her practice has been presented nationally and internationally, including at Sadler's Wells, Palais de Tokyo, and Arnolfini. She has published her research in journals Performing Ethos, Choreographic Practices and Performance Research.

Zusammenfassung
This book explores repetition in contemporary performance and spectatorship. It offers an impassioned account of the ways in which speech, movement and structures repeat in performances by Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Lone Twin Theatre, Haranczak/Navarre and Marco Berrettini. It addresses repetition in relation to processes of desire and draws attention to the forces that repetition captures and makes visible. What is it in performances of repetition that persuades us to return to them again and again? How might we unpack their complexities and come to terms with their demands upon us? While considering repetition in relation to the difficult pleasures we derive from the theatre, this book explores ways of accounting for such experiences of theatre in memory and writing.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Invisible Forces.- 2. Stein, Beckett, Rainer and Brown.- 3. After Barthes.- 4. After Stein.- 5. Performance Returns.- 6. After Lacan.- 7. Conclusion: Filling the Gaps.- Bibliography.- Index.