Explores a range of performances in Ireland and the UK that engage with trauma and suffering
Focuses on figures who have previously been marginalised by dominant patriarchal theatrical and historical canons
Considers the staging of a range of traumatic episodes, including sexual violence, terminal illness, and asylum

Autorentext

Miriam Haughton is Lecturer at the O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. She has co-edited the collection Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland (2015) and published multiple essays in international journals, including Contemporary Theatre Review , Modern Drama , and Irish Studies Review .

Zusammenfassung
This volume speaks to students, scholars and artists working within contemporary theatre and performance, Irish and British studies, memory and trauma studies, feminisms, performance studies, affect and reception studies, as well as the medical humanities.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Staging the Unknowable, the Unspeakable, the Unrepresentable.2. VIOLATION: On Raftery's Hill (2001) by Marina Carr.3. LOSS: Colder Than Here (2005) by Laura Wade.4. CONTAINMENT: Laundry (2011) directed by Louise Lowe, ANU Productions.5. EXILE: Sanctuary (2013) directed by Teya Sepinuck for Derry Playhouse 'Theatre of Witness'.6. Conclusion: Relationality.