{"product_id":"performance-and-real-relationships","title":"Performance and Real Relationships","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book argues that staging real relationships and collaborating with family members has the potential to rupture theatrical representation by producing an effect of authenticity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on psychoanalytic theory (Lacan, Kristeva), poststructuralist critique (Derrida), and feminist and queer theory, the author explores how theatre becomes a method of \u003ci\u003edoing family\u003c\/i\u003e: a set of embodied, affective and performative practices rather than a fixed institution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The book is richly informed by case studies, supported by production photographs, including the German company She She Pop performing \u003ci\u003eTestament\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) with their fathers; Liz Clarke performing \u003ci\u003eI Tattooed My Baby\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) with her infant daughter; Zoo Indigo’s \u003ci\u003eUnder the Covers \u003c\/i\u003e(2009) and \u003ci\u003eBlueprint \u003c\/i\u003e(2012), performed with their children and mothers; Bryony Kimmings performing with her partner in \u003ci\u003eFake it Till you Make it\u003c\/i\u003e (2015); and \u003ci\u003eFirst Trimester \u003c\/i\u003e(2023) by Queer performance maker Krishna Istha performing alongside their partner and extended ‘chosen family’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The chapters include interwoven interviews with theatre practitioners, discussing their experience of performing with family members, and offering fascinating insights into the processes, ethics and methodologies of doing so. The exploration of love and family are enriched by the author’s own autobiographical reflections, written in a poetic mode of auto theory.\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, the book reveals how real relationships on stage can generate empathy, challenge normative kinship structures, and invite audiences to rethink care, love, and the many ways we \u003ci\u003edo\u003c\/i\u003e family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57257788047704,"sku":"9781350448094","price":97.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/performance-and-real-relationships","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}