Sarah Kane''s Theatre of Psychic Life : Theatre, Thought and Mental Suffering
by
Leah Sidi
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Methuen Drama Engage
ISBN-10
1350283169
ISBN-13
9781350283169
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
Methuen Drama
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 31st, 2024
Print length
230 Pages
Weight
298 grams
Dimensions
13.90 x 21.60 x 1.50 cms
Ksh 6,050.00
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The first book to focus exclusively on playwright Sarah Kane''s approach to mind and mental health; it brings together archival material, healthcare contexts and contemporary performances. As such, it offers an important re-evaluation of Kane''s oeuvre, revealing the relationship between theatre and mind, which lies at the heart of her theatrical project.
Drawing on performance theory, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, this book argues that Kane''s innovations generated a ''dramaturgy of psychic life'', which re-shape the encounter between stage and audience. It uses previously unseen archival material and contemporary productions to uncover the mechanics of this innovative theatre practice.
Through a radically open-ended approach to dramaturgy, Kane''s works offer urgent insights into mental suffering that take us beyond traditional discourses of empathy and ''mental health'' and into a profound rethinking of theatre as a mode of thought.
It makes a case for the relevance of Kane''s work to understandings of contemporary diagnostic categories and places it in urgent debates about mental health in the medical humanities.
Drawing on performance theory, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, this book argues that Kane''s innovations generated a ''dramaturgy of psychic life'', which re-shape the encounter between stage and audience. It uses previously unseen archival material and contemporary productions to uncover the mechanics of this innovative theatre practice.
Through a radically open-ended approach to dramaturgy, Kane''s works offer urgent insights into mental suffering that take us beyond traditional discourses of empathy and ''mental health'' and into a profound rethinking of theatre as a mode of thought.
It makes a case for the relevance of Kane''s work to understandings of contemporary diagnostic categories and places it in urgent debates about mental health in the medical humanities.
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