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Record Nr.

UNINA9911011819703321

Autore

Jones Kelly

Titolo

Staging the Ghost Story : Shadows in the Limelight / / by Kelly Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025

ISBN

9783031919619

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Gothic, , 2634-6222

Disciplina

792.0233

Soggetti

Theater - History

Goth culture (Subculture)

Theater - Production and direction

Actors

Stage management

Theatre History

Gothic Studies

Theatre Direction and Production

Performers and Practitioners

Technology and Stagecraft

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Time -- Chapter 3: Spaces -- Chapter 4: Performers -- Chapter 5: Devices -- Chapter 6: Audience -- Chapter 7: The Curtain Call.

Sommario/riassunto

Staging the Ghost Story is the first book to offer a critical appraisal of the centuries-long relationship between the ghost story and the English stage. The book balances a critical consideration of the ghost story in performance, its history, its cultural politics, and its generic conventions, with practical insight regarding the valency of live representations of the supernatural, the challenges of embodiment, and the power of storytelling. Throughout, it draws upon accompanying interviews with prominent directors, playwrights, performers and stage designers in the industry, including Mark Gatiss, Robin Herford, Michael Holt, Danny Robins, Robert Lloyd Parry, Rebecca



Vaughan, Tajinder Singh Hayer, Glen Neath, Adam Z. Robinson, Richard Sutton, Paul Voodini, and Jonathan Goodwin. With a focus upon the seminal elements of theatrical performance: time, space, bodies, devices, and audience, the book invites the elusive shadows of the ghost story to take centre stage. Kelly Jones is senior lecturer in Drama at the University of Lincoln, UK, where she specialises in theatrical realisations of the supernatural and the Gothic. She is the co-editor of Contemporary Gothic Drama: Attraction, Consummation and Consumption on the Modern British Stage (2018).