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Late Stage: Theatrical Perspectives on Age and Aging represents the first comprehensive anthology to critically interrogate the intersection of age studies with theater and performance studies. Undoing the notion of a singular, continuous self as we age—an assumption that negatively positions old age in opposition to youth—this volume challenges biological imperatives imposed by essentialist views of aging. Late Stage reconceptualizes age as an additional dimension of identity constituted through the sociocultural systems that shape the material body over time. The collection portrays aging as a dynamic and evolving process, countering ageist narratives of decline and stereotypes that homogenize later life as a fixed, undesirable state. By exploring themes such as intergenerational dialogue, elder sexualities, late style, casting practices, age-related caregiving, and artistic longevity, contributors reposition later life into complex narratives that resist normative age scripts. Drawing on gender studies, queer and feminist theory, and disability studies, the collection bridges performance analysis with theoretical frameworks and collectively addresses how aging is experienced, represented, and resisted across time and cultures. Late Stage explores key works by canonical and contemporary figures such as Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, Caryl Churchill, Clare Barron, Naomi Iizuka, Tracy Letts, David Lindsay-Abaire, Judith Malina, Robbie McCauley, Florian Zeller, and Peggy Shaw. With its innovative approach, Late Stage serves not only as a critical text for courses on performance and age, but as a call to action for expanding conversations around age in theater and society.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: time she stopped
Benjamin Gillespie and Cindy Rosenthal
Part I. Dramaturgies of Aging and Late Style
1. a. Estragement: Towards an "Age Theory" Theatre Criticism
b. Rehearsing Age
Elinor Fuchs
2. Aging and the Time of Estragement in Chekhov's Drama
Yana Meerzon
3. Pathologizing Aging Femininity: The Mad Older Woman in Tracy Letts' August: Osage
County and Florian Zeller's The Mother
Nuria Casado-Gual and Inesa Schevchenko-Hotsuliak
4. Caryl Churchill's Late Style
R. Darren Gobert
Part II. (Re)Casting Age
5. Age-conscious Casting: Comedy and the Middle-Aged Ingenue
Valerie Barnes Lipscomb
6. Differential Ageism: Aging and Asian American Identity in Out of Time
Dorothy Chansky
7. Haunted by the Specters of What They Will Become: St(age) Directions and the Default Body
Bess Rowen
8. Aging from Queer and Trans Perspectives: laGeste's Gardenia-10 Years Later (2021)
Heunjung Lee
Part III. Autobiography and the Aging Body/Self
9. "The Triumph of Time": Utopic Visions of Judith Malina's Late Performances
Cindy Rosenthal
10. I Feel Memories In My Body More Than Ever
Robbie McCauley and Daniel Alexander Jones
11. Rehearsing for Revolution: Autobiographical Performance Arouses Utopian Performativity
in Sonic Elder
Julia Henderson
12. Queering Age and Memory/Loss in Peggy Shaw's Ruff
Benjamin Gillespie
Part IV. Time, Empathy, and Care
13. The Melody of Aging: Interview with Bonnie Marranca
Hillary Miller
14. Age Simulation: The Ultimate Dress Rehearsal
Scott Magelssen
15. Bringing Down the Curtain: Robotic Animals and Technologies of Aging
Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
16. At this Time (Or My Friend Elinor)
Anne Davis Basting
