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Authors: IULIA POPOVICI.
VIEW PDF: SHAME. SPECTATORSHIP STRATEGIES IN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY THEATRE
Taking as examples two recent theatre performances that use documentary techniques in order to deal with subjects of recent history (the largely ignored Holocaust in Bessarabia under Romanian ruling and the surveillance of private citizens, by the secret police, in Romania in the eighties), this article explores the strategies that documentary theatre employs for eliciting certain emotions among their audience. The approach takes into consideration the theories of the sociology of emotions and the theatre literature about the emotional effects of direct address in non-participatory performances, in order to develop a demonstration that for the performances given as examples, shaming/spectatorial shame response is a theatrical strategy actively chosen for its potential to overpass the conventional passiveness of the audience.
Keywords: documentary theatre, social emotions, empathy, shame, active spectatorship.
References:
Agamben, Giorgio, 1999, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen, New York, Zone Books
Davis, Mark H., 2006 „Empathy“, in Stets, Jan E., and Turner, Jonathan H. (eds.), Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions, New York, Springer
Grehan, Helena, 2009, Performance, Ethics and Spectatorship in a Global Age, London, Palgrave Macmillan.
Martin, Carol, 2013, Theatre of the Real, London, Palgrave Macmillan
Negură, Petru, 2012, “Clear history la teatrul Spălătorie: un manifest de neuitare” / ” Clear History at the Laundry Theatre: A Statement Against Oblivion”, http://petrunegura.blogspot.ro/2012/01/clear-history-la-teatrul-spalatorie-un.html (accessed July 2015)
Popovici, Iulia, 2014, “«1989 was not a real break with what had been». Director Gianina Cărbunariu about Typographic Majuscule”, in Parallele Leben / Parallel Lives: Ein Dokumentar-Theaterprojekt zum Geheimdienst in Osteuropa / A Documentary Theatre Project on Secret Police in Eastern Europe (Berlin, Theater der Zeit)
Reinelt, Janelle, 2011, „The Promise of Documentary”, in Forsyth, Alison, and Megson, Chris (eds.) Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present, New York, London, Palgrave Macmillan
Ridout, Nicholas, 2006, Stage Fright, Animals and Other Theatrical Problems, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Stoica, Oana, 2014, “Cealaltă istorie”/”The Other History”, Dilema Veche, no. 557, 16-22 October, http://dilemaveche.ro/sectiune/arte-performative/articol/cealalta-istorie, accessed July 2015.
Published Online: 2015-10
References:
Agamben, Giorgio, 1999, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen, New York, Zone Books
Davis, Mark H., 2006 „Empathy“, in Stets, Jan E., and Turner, Jonathan H. (eds.), Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions, New York, Springer
Grehan, Helena, 2009, Performance, Ethics and Spectatorship in a Global Age, London, Palgrave Macmillan.
Martin, Carol, 2013, Theatre of the Real, London, Palgrave Macmillan
Negură, Petru, 2012, “Clear history la teatrul Spălătorie: un manifest de neuitare” / ” Clear History at the Laundry Theatre: A Statement Against Oblivion”, http://petrunegura.blogspot.ro/2012/01/clear-history-la-teatrul-spalatorie-un.html (accessed July 2015)
Popovici, Iulia, 2014, “«1989 was not a real break with what had been». Director Gianina Cărbunariu about Typographic Majuscule”, in Parallele Leben / Parallel Lives: Ein Dokumentar-Theaterprojekt zum Geheimdienst in Osteuropa / A Documentary Theatre Project on Secret Police in Eastern Europe (Berlin, Theater der Zeit)
Reinelt, Janelle, 2011, „The Promise of Documentary”, in Forsyth, Alison, and Megson, Chris (eds.) Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present, New York, London, Palgrave Macmillan
Ridout, Nicholas, 2006, Stage Fright, Animals and Other Theatrical Problems, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Stoica, Oana, 2014, “Cealaltă istorie”/”The Other History”, Dilema Veche, no. 557, 16-22 October, http://dilemaveche.ro/sectiune/arte-performative/articol/cealalta-istorie, accessed July 2015.
Published Online: 2015-10
