Sarah Kane's Blasted

Iball, Helen

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“…In his introduction to Kane's Complete Plays, David Greig identifies Blasted as the first of a quartet of plays exploring what 4:48 Psychosis describes as a triad of 'Victim. 20 Ian tells the Soldier, 'I'm a home journalist for Yorkshire. Bystander'.…”

Section: Journalism Under the Microscopementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bystander'. 22 There is a horrible continuity between the discourse within and discourse around Blasted. 19 Ian's misogyny and defensiveness, which come to the fore when he becomes the victim, are carefully calibrated, according, as Helen Iball puts it, to 'distinctions' on which 'his profession as a tabloid journalist is shown to depend'.…”

Section: Journalism Under the Microscopementioning

confidence: 99%

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Naked Truth: Theatrical Performance and the Diagnostic Turn

Frieze¹

2011

Theatre Research International

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james friezeIn a fashion that harks back to the birth of naturalistic drama, but also reflects contemporary anxieties about the etiolation of the real, the forensic capabilities of theatre have become, in the last two decades, the primary focus of theatrical attention. Reconsidering landmark works and rhetorical frames that helped to establish verbatim, virtual and in-yer-face theatre, this article explores the ways in which these key works and genres deploy, and attempt to jam, theatre's diagnostic machinery. The article contextualizes that machinery in relation to the medical underpinnings of naturalism, the growth of theatrical reflexivity from Pirandello to Beckett to Blast Theory, and the televisual phenomena of crime-scene investigation and fly-on-the-wall 'reality shows'. In the final section I move to address two works which are explicitly about diagnosis, but which, in signal and purposeful ways, evade diagnosis: Must, by American performance artist Peggy Shaw and British company Clod Ensemble; and If That's All There Is, by UK-based company Inspector Sands.Downloaded

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Section: Journalism Under the Microscopementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Journalism Under the Microscopementioning

confidence: 99%