The Leper in Blue: Coercive Performance and the Contemporary Latin American TheaterDrawing upon contemporary theoretical debates surrounding performance, gender, and Latin American studies, The Leper in Blue examines representations of performance within dramatic texts. The book treats the work of playwrights such as Vincente Lenero, Sabina Berman, Mariela Romero, Griselda Gambaro, Maruxa Vilalta, and Rosario Castellanos, who depict the freedom of performance within a framework of compulsion. Individual chapters focus on the transformation of historical narratives, ritual game playing, the performance of gender, the staging of torture, and, finally, nonperformance--the representation of coercive performances that are at once demanded and denied. The plays examined not only raise important questions about the nature of performance but also shed light on many of the crucial sociopolitical issues of twentieth-century Latin America, among them economic instability, political repression, state violence, and dictatorship. |
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Page 189
... Audience complicity is also inherent in theatrical performance , as the audience agrees to observe the action present- ed on stage . Theatrical spectatorship is not innocent , in that a delib- erate choice has been made to view this ...
... Audience complicity is also inherent in theatrical performance , as the audience agrees to observe the action present- ed on stage . Theatrical spectatorship is not innocent , in that a delib- erate choice has been made to view this ...
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... audience - he happens only if people come to see him - highlights his constricted options : trapped on a stage that will disappear if the audience fails to show . The audience then must bear some responsibility for the spectacle ...
... audience - he happens only if people come to see him - highlights his constricted options : trapped on a stage that will disappear if the audience fails to show . The audience then must bear some responsibility for the spectacle ...
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... audience and performer , a con- frontation in which the coercion of performance is to some degree realized on the body of the spectator as well as that of the actors . " Nothing is happening in part because this is " only " a play , yet ...
... audience and performer , a con- frontation in which the coercion of performance is to some degree realized on the body of the spectator as well as that of the actors . " Nothing is happening in part because this is " only " a play , yet ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 9 |
PERFORMANCE TEXTUALITY AND THE NARRATION OF HISTORY | 29 |
PERFORMANCE AND GAMES | 75 |
Copyright | |
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