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Instead of treating modernism principally as a thing of the past, this volume highlights modernism as an impulse that can be carried forward to the present, re-embodied and re-encountered in theatrical performance. It demonstrates how modernist impulses spark contemporary theatre in electric and dynamic ways, continuing the modernist imperative to 'make it new' and to engage meaningfully with the complicated situation of living in the contemporary world. Through a diverse set of contributions from scholars and theatre practitioners, this book examines the legacy of modernism on the world stage in acts of remembrance, restaging, transmission and slippage. It investigates both well-known and less familiar aspects of modernist theatre history, engaging topics such as the revival of the first Black American musical, feminist and disability-led reinterpretations of canonical modernist plays, the use of modernist-inspired performance practice in contemporary university arts education and the continually contested meaning and importance of the avant-garde.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
(anti-)capitalsism: a manifesto
Introduction: Sensing Modernism in Theatre
Claire Warden, Nicholas Johnson, Adrian Curtin and Naomi Paxton
Part I: Remembrance and Reconfiguration
1. Introduction: Playing with the Past, Attending to the 'Lost'
Claire Warden
2. 'The Right to Revolution': Ernst Toller's Legacy on the British Stage
Claire Warden
3. Legacy, Embodiment, Activism: Pageant of Agitating Women
Monica Prince and Anna Andes
4. Modernist Nostalgia and Contemporary Irish Dance
Chris Collins
5. Reaching Out in Both Directions: Suffrage Theatre in the Twenty-First Century
Naomi Paxton
6. Shuffle Along (1921) and the Challenges of Black Modernist Performance on the Contemporary Stage
Carrie J. Preston
7. 'Who Was This Woman?' A Conversation about Remembering Modernist Figures through the Body
Jessica Walker and Claire Warden
8. An Ode to Black Women Modernists
Adjoa Osei
Part II: Restaging Drama
9. Introduction: Acts of Translation, Reimagining and Creative Destruction
Adrian Curtin
10. Restaging Futurism and Joan Brossa: Provocation or Observation with a Glass of Champagne or a Cup of Tea
John London
11. Marguerite Duras's Theatre and the Boundaries of Modernism
Lib Taylor
12. The (Dead) Centre Cannot Hold: Ontological Insecurity in Chekhov's First Play
Adrian Curtin
13. En-Staging Nora: Unruly Modernisms in Theodoros Terzopoulos's Nora
Konstantinos Thomaidis and Maria Vogiatzi
14. After and Against Strindberg: A Conversation about Missing Julie
Kaite O'Reilly and Adrian Curtin
15. 'A Voice She Did Not Recognise At First': Touretteshero's Neurodiverse
Presentation of Samuel Beckett's Not I
Matthew Pountney
16. Pushing the Boundaries: Staging Western Modern(ist) Drama in Contemporary China
Shouhua Qi
Part III: Transmission
17. Introduction: (Im)material Legacies, Living Traditions
Claire Warden, Adrian Curtin, Nicholas Johnson and Naomi Paxton
18. The Theatre of Tadashi Suzuki at the Crossroads of Modernism
Burc İdem Dincel
19. Stanislavski on Skype
Mark Westbrook
20. Raising Her Voice: Presenting the Lives and Writings of Virginia Woolf and Dame Ethel Smyth for a Contemporary Theatre Audience
Lucy Stevens
21. Embodied Knowledge: A Brechtian Approach to Making Theatre with Young People
Kerry Frampton
22. Appropriation, Abstraction and Appraisal: Modernist Legacies of Contemporary Dance
Hanna Jarvinen
23. Shaw and the Early-Twentieth-Century British Regional Repertory Movement
Soudabeh Ananisarab
24. 'Aqui no estamos en el teatro': Impossible Plays, Queer Ghosts and Haunted Practices
Jonathan Heron
Part IV: Slippages
25. Introduction: How Movements Might Move
Nicholas Johnson
26. Ages of Arousal
Penny Farfan
27. 'Make the New Legible through Experimentation': A Conversation on the (Ongoing) Avant-Garde
Sascha Bru and Nicholas Johnson
28. Brecht as Slippage: Interrobang's Dialogues with Modernist Theatre Machines
Ramona Mosse
29. 'What Could Be the Theatre of Contemporary Life?' A Conversation about the Work of Studio Oyuncuları Istanbul
Şahika Tekand and Burc İdem Dincel
30. 'How Do We Make a Room in the Theatre?' A Conversation about Design for Pan Pan Theatre, Dublin
Aedin Cosgrove and Nicholas Johnson
31. Samuel Beckett and Border Thinking
Nicholas Johnson
32. The Writing on the Wall Isn't There to Be Read: Unworking the Theatrical in the Figures of Adrienne Kennedy
Kevin Bell
Afterword
Olga Taxidou
Event Scores (after fluxus)
Notes on Contributors
