The Politics of Being on Stage

Edited by Anja Klöck.

13 essays from the field of contemporary theatre and performance studies address the issue of the actor/performer and the question of his or her public negotiation of normative orders. They are structured by three sections: 1: Acting and Being: Politics of Theories and Practices; 2: Politics of Training: Traditions, Institutions and Promises; 3: Activist Acting: Spectatorship, Scholarship and Responsibility. The authors discuss the entanglement of actors/performers in a variety of normalising practices, offering philosophical investigations, performance analyses, historical examples, and personal experiences. With contributions by Elaine Aston, Sruti Bala, Wolf-Dieter Ernst, Rikard Hoogland, Birgitta Johansson, Joe Kienast, Anja Klöck, Michal Kobialka, Heide Lazarus, Ruta Mazeikiene, Juliano Mer Khamis, Kati Röttger, Tiina Rosenberg, and Willmar Sauter. 293 Seiten mit 29 Abb., broschiert (Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig. Schriften; Band 4/Olms Verlag 2012)