Troublesome Professionals: On the speculative reality of theatrical labour

Abstract

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Maybe we will understand it once we’ve made it…

“…exists] simultaneously with a then and a there. [2] How to create the scenography for a get in and get out…”

Performance and Value: The Work of Theatre in Karl Marx's Critique of Political Economy

“…16 As Theron Schmidt puts it in his gloss on this workerist turn in performance scholarship: "artists, performancebased or otherwise, can no longer claim some vantage point outside of advanced capitalism, but, it may be argued, are its most exemplary labourers." 17 Perspectives like these help us to grasp the myriad overlaps between the worlds of performance and capitalism today. But attempts to describe how capitalist society impinges on performance tend to look past or even overstate the specific economic relation performance has to capital.…”