Loss of Small White Clouds - Dementia in Contemporary Performance

This volume seeks to instigate a discussion about dementia in theatre.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: "We're all in our own little world": Inside Dementia Experiences
Chapter 1: Dementia from the Inside: The Father and Autobiographer
Chapter 2: Research-based Performance: Inside Out of Mind
Chapter 3: Social Narratives and the Family as Microcosm: Really Old, Like Forty-Five
Part I summary
Part II: Active and Passive Embodiment
Chapter 4: Transforming the domestic space: Sundowner and 1 Beach Road
Chapter 5: Puppetry and Dementia: It's Dark Outside and D-Generation: An Exaltation of Larks
Part II summary
Part III: Postdramatic Theatre: Radical alternatives for staging dementia
Chapter 6: Experiential performance: Memory Point(s)
Chapter 7: Problematising dementia: Sul Concetto di Volto nel Figlio di Dio
Chapter 8: Dementia and Creative Agency: RUFF
Part III summary
Conclusion
End Matter
Index

About the author

Morgan Batch is a Sessional Academic with the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Summary

This volume seeks to instigate a discussion about dementia in theatre.

Product details

• Authors: Morgan Batch
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032252025
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225202-5
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Dance, Sociology, The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, PERFORMING ARTS / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, Theatre Studies, Disability: social aspects, Performance Art, Puppetry, miniature & toy theatre, The arts: general topics, PERFORMING ARTS / Puppets & Puppetry, Puppetry, miniature and toy theatre