This book takes performance studies in exciting new directions, exploring the ways in which ethics can be used to understand the complex questions facing contemporary spectators. Engaging with five key performances, the book reflects on the emotional and intellectual impacts of politically inflected performance on spectators, critics and theorists.

Autorentext
HELENA GREHAN is a Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Arts at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. She is the author of Mapping Cultural Identity in Contemporary Australian Performance, as well as many scholarly articles on performance, representation and interculturalism.

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Contents List of Illustrations Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Situating the Spectator Genesi : The Spectator and 'Useless Suffering' 'The Career Highlights of the MAMU' : Alterity and Ahame Sandakan Threnody : Testimony and the Dangers of Polyphony The Limits of Testimony: Ariane Mnouchkine and Théâtre du Soleil's Le Dernier Caravansérail (Odyssées) Otherness and Responsibility in Three Tales by Steve Reich and Beryl Korot and Nature's Little Helpers by Patricia Piccinini Afterword Notes Bibliography Index