Susanne Kennedy Reanimating the Theatre · Reanimating the Theatre by Arteel, Inge -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Susanne Kennedy’s Theatre

Reanimating the theatre Overview of Susanne Kennedy’s productions

Transactional Love

1 Life as a whorehouse 2 When form becomes substance 3 Aesthetics of the surface 4 In search of the unbearable 5 Conclusion

The Enforced, Rejected and Subjecting Gaze

1 Alienation and the baroque 2 Frontality and the baroque theory of signs 3 Looking and being looked at 4 A martyr tragedy 5 Conclusion

Puppets in a Panic Room?

1 Actors and/as puppets 2 From gesture to pose 3 Space and gesture 4 Concluding remarks: Kennedy’s gestural theatre

Susanne Kennedy’s Cinematic Melodrama on Stage

1 The economics of emotions in melodrama 2 Reworking the melodramatic spectacle 3 Reworking the “other” melodrama 4 Melodrama on stage: Kennedy’s disturbing image politics 5 Micro-choreographies of slow death 6 Starlets on stage. Theatre as melodramatic hypermedium

Theatre as an Exercise in Dying

1 Enter 2 Poeticized mythology 3 ORFEO. An Exercise in Dying 4 Eurydice in the conflict of figuration as (a) female figure and theatrical figure 5 Letting go

Susanne Kennedy’s Women in Trouble

1 Dramaturgies of the cycling 2 In between 3 On a parahuman theatre 4 Instead of a conclusion

Re-interpreting the Mask: Masking and Masquerades as an Artistic Research Practice

Everyday faces becoming surreal: Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? Staging absence: The Suicide Sisters Masks as an enigma: Drei Schwestern

Drei Schwestern: How to Build Moscow’s Point Of View

1 A spectacle that suffers from its own temporal nature 2 The scene as an impossible object 3 A self-perceptual shaking 4 An autopoietic potential between the stage and the audience 5 A pattern of differentiation raised to the “nth” power 6 A centrifuge that goes wild 7 A fractal opening of the instant

The Loop as Transmedial Principle in Susanne Kennedy’s Drei Schwestern

Becoming Something Else – Susanne Kennedy’s Theatre of Attunement

1 The virtual and VR 2 Theatre ritual as a loop 3 Attunement 4 Portals: gates and spaces 5 Ultraworld. A life 6 An exhibition of play

Artist Talk with Susanne Kennedy Notes on contributors Footnotes