Once More, With Feeling: Six Affecting Plays
As a companion collection to Theatres of Affect, Once More, With Feeling celebrates and interrogates the variable experiences of affecting theatre in Canada.

This anthology brings together plays that highlight different types of affective experience—thematically in their content, dramaturgically in their structure, or technically in their production. They focus on how theatre uses a range of feeling-technologies, including plot, characterization, special effects, and verbatim dialogue, to produce moving moments in performance and to elicit affective responses in audiences.
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Once More, With Feeling: Six Affecting Plays
As a companion collection to Theatres of Affect, Once More, With Feeling celebrates and interrogates the variable experiences of affecting theatre in Canada.

This anthology brings together plays that highlight different types of affective experience—thematically in their content, dramaturgically in their structure, or technically in their production. They focus on how theatre uses a range of feeling-technologies, including plot, characterization, special effects, and verbatim dialogue, to produce moving moments in performance and to elicit affective responses in audiences.
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Once More, With Feeling: Six Affecting Plays

Once More, With Feeling: Six Affecting Plays

Once More, With Feeling: Six Affecting Plays

Once More, With Feeling: Six Affecting Plays

Overview

As a companion collection to Theatres of Affect, Once More, With Feeling celebrates and interrogates the variable experiences of affecting theatre in Canada.

This anthology brings together plays that highlight different types of affective experience—thematically in their content, dramaturgically in their structure, or technically in their production. They focus on how theatre uses a range of feeling-technologies, including plot, characterization, special effects, and verbatim dialogue, to produce moving moments in performance and to elicit affective responses in audiences.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781770912175
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Publication date: 09/09/2014
Pages: 496
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Erin Hurley is a director of undergraduate studies and an associate professor in the Department of English at McGill University. Her teaching and research areas focus on Québécois theatre and cultural performance, national performatives, theatre historiography, performance studies, dramatic theory, twentieth-century theatre, and feminist and LGBTQ theatre. Erin has won several awards for her work, including the Pierre Savard Award and the Ann Saddlemyer Award.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Once More, With Feeling! Erin Hurley v

Bliss by Olivier Choinière, translated by Caryl Churchill, with an introduction Stéphanie Nutting 1

Nanay (Mother): A Testimonial Play by Geraldine Pratt and Caleb Johnston in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre of BC, with an introduction Patrick Alcedo 49

RAGE by Michele Riml, with an introduction Nicholas Hanson 91

The Glass Box by Theatre Terrific, devised by Kyla Harris, Watson Moy, and Susanna Uchatius, with an introduction by Allison Leadley 149

The Salon Automaton by Nathalie Claude, translated by Nathalie Claude in close collaboration with Moynan King, with an introduction by Moynan King 195

Acknowledgements 251

Contributors 253

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