Staging Loss Gebunden

This book locates and critically theorises an emerging field of twenty-first century theatre practice concerned either thematically methodologically or formally with acts of commemoration and the commemorative. With notions of memorial celebration temporality and remembrance at its heart and as a timely topic for debate this book asks how theatre and performance intersects with commemorative acts or rituals in contemporary theatre and performance practice. It considers the (re)performance of history commemoration as a form of or performance of ritual performance as memorial perfor mance as eulogy and eulogy as performance. It asks where personal acts of remembrance merge with public or political acts of remembrance where the boundary between the commemorative and the performative might lie and how it might be blurred broken or questioned. It explores how we might remake the past in the present to consider not just how performance commemorates but how commemoration performs.