LEADER 03636nam 22005895 450 001 9910495184003321 005 20230810173335.0 010 $a9783030797829 010 $a3030797821 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-79782-9 035 $a(CKB)5600000000003610 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6715896 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6715896 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-79782-9 035 $a(EXLCZ)995600000000003610 100 $a20210830d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMadness in Contemporary British Theatre $eResistances and Representations /$fby Jon Venn 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (229 pages) 311 08$a9783030797812 311 08$a3030797813 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Psychiatric Power in the Contemporary Asylum: The Diagnostic Gaze and the Practical Critique -- Chapter 3: Hearing Voices, Seeing Visions: Hallucination, Space, and Mad Experience -- Chapter 4: Other Lives and Radical Perspectives: Witnessing the Suicide, Witnessing the Mad -- Chapter 5: Madness and the Ethical Encounter in Autobiographical Performance -- Chapter 6: Conclusion. 330 $aThis book considers the representation of madness in contemporary British theatre, examining the rich relationship between performance and mental health, and questioning how theatre can potentially challenge dominant understandings of mental health. Carefully, it suggests what it means to represent madness in theatre, and the avenues through which such representations can become radical, whereby theatre can act as a site of resistance. Engaging with the heterogeneity of madness, each chapter covers different attributes and logics, including: the constitution and institutional structures of the contemporary asylum; the cultural idioms behind hallucination; the means by which suicide is apprehended and approached; how testimony of the mad person is interpreted and encountered. As a study that interrogates a wide range of British theatre across the past 30 years, and includes a theoretical interrogation of the politics of madness, this is a crucial work for any student or researcher, across disciplines, considering the politics of madness and its relationship to performance. Dr. Jon Venn works as Teaching Fellow in Drama at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research interests include contemporary British theatre, the politics of madness, and critical suicide studies. His work has appeared in The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science and the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies. 606 $aTheater$xHistory 606 $aTheater 606 $aPerforming arts 606 $aContemporary Theatre and Performance 606 $aNational and Regional Theatre and Performance 606 $aTheatre and Performance Arts 615 0$aTheater$xHistory. 615 0$aTheater. 615 0$aPerforming arts. 615 14$aContemporary Theatre and Performance. 615 24$aNational and Regional Theatre and Performance. 615 24$aTheatre and Performance Arts. 676 $a822.91409 676 $a822.914093561 700 $aVenn$b Jon$0871406 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495184003321 996 $aMadness in Contemporary British Theatre$91945371 997 $aUNINA