LEADER 04781nam 22006015 450 001 9910741185403321 005 20230810133535.0 010 $a3-031-20902-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-20902-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30683604 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30683604 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-20902-4 035 $a(CKB)27962354000041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9927962354000041 100 $a20230809d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLosing It $eStaging the Cultural Conundrum of Dementia and Decline in American Theatre /$fby Dorothy Chansky 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (329 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Chansky, Dorothy Losing It Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031209017 327 $aPART I: ORIENTATION -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Dementia, Alzheimer?s, Age: Intersectionalities -- Chapter 3: Bodies in the Audience/Bodies Onstage: Intersectionalities -- PART II: SOCIAL INSECURITY -- Chapter 4: Walk-on: Joint Owners in Spain -- Chapter 5: Supporting Role: All the Living -- Chapter 6: Willy Loman Center Stage: Death of a Salesman -- PART III: TAKING IT PERSONALLY Chapter 7: From the Inside Brain Crash: Wings ?I am an Archive?: Ruff -- Chapter 8: Inside (and) Out ?Who exactly am I??: The Father -- PART IV: HUMAN. RESOURCES -- Chapter 9: Memory. Loss. Or, Understanding Memory (for Dummies) -- Chapter 10: Family Affairs Sign on the Dot(ty)ed Line: Dot Brief me on this: Our Mother?s Brief Affair -- Chapter 11: Ready for Prime Time: Marjorie Prime -- Chapter 12: Cellular Data -- Chapter 13: No. Regrets. Wav(erly)ing Goodbye: The Waverly Gallery Humans. Resources.: The Humans -- Chapter 14: Who Cares?. 330 $aThis monograph is a study of American (U.S.) stage representations of dementia mounted between 1913 and 2019. Its imbricated strands are playtexts; audiences as both the targets of the productions (artifacts in the marketplace) and as anticipated determinants of legibility; and medical science, both as has been (and is) known to researchers and, more importantly, as it has been (and is) known to educated general audiences. As the Baby Boom generation finds itself solidly in the category of ?Senior,? interest in plays that address personal and social issues around cognitive decline as a potentially frightening and expensive experience, no two iterations of which are identical, have, understandably, burgeoned. This study shines a spotlight on eleven dementia plays that have been produced in the United States over the past century, and seeks, in the words of medical humanities scholar Anne Whitehead, to ?open up, and to hold open, central ethical questions of responsiveness, interpretation, responsibility, complicity and care.? Dorothy Chansky is a Professor in the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University, USA, where she is a President's Excellence in Research Professor. She was Founding Director of Tech's Humanities Center and a past President of the American Theatre and Drama Society as well as Vice President for Publications of the American Society for Theatre Research. Dorothy?s previous publications include Composing Ourselves: The Little Theatre Movement and the American Audience (2004) and Kitchen Sink Realisms: Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama on the American Stage (2015). She was editor of Theatre Annual: A Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas from 2011-2016 and is a former Book Review Editor of Theatre Journal. She is a current member of the Translation, Adaptation, and Dramaturgy Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research. 606 $aTheater 606 $aTheater$xHistory 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aMedicine and the humanities 606 $aGlobal and International Theatre and Performance 606 $aTheatre History 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aMedical Humanities 615 0$aTheater. 615 0$aTheater$xHistory. 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aMedicine and the humanities. 615 14$aGlobal and International Theatre and Performance. 615 24$aTheatre History. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aMedical Humanities. 676 $a792.09730904 676 $a792.09730904 700 $aChansky$b Dorothy$01270702 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910741185403321 996 $aLosing It$93554209 997 $aUNINA