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Dementia, Narrative and Performance = Staging Reality, Reimagining Identities /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Dementia, Narrative and Performance/ by Janet Gibson.
Reminder of title:	Staging Reality, Reimagining Identities /
Author:	Gibson, Janet.
Description:	XV, 298 p. 5 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Performing arts. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46547-6
ISBN:	9783030465476

Dementia, Narrative and Performance = Staging Reality, Reimagining Identities /
Gibson, Janet.

Dementia, Narrative and PerformanceStaging Reality, Reimagining Identities /[electronic resource] :by Janet Gibson. - 1st ed. 2020. - XV, 298 p. 5 illus.online resource.

1. My Mother’s Story, My Story -- Part I. Dementia, Identity and Narrative -- 2. Recasting Senility: The Genesis of the ‘Right Kind’ of Dementia Story -- 3. Narrative Regimes -- Part II. Dementia in Performance -- 4. Staging the ‘Reality’ of Dementia -- 5. Staging Dementia Voices in Australia: Missing the Bus to David Jones, Theatre Kantanka, and Sundowner, KAGE -- 6. Mapping Applied Performance in Dementia Cultures -- 7. “I Don’t Want to Disappear”: Dementia and Public Autobiographical Performance -- Part III. Dementia as Performance -- 8. Rehearsing a Theory of Dementia as Performance -- 9. Revisiting My Mother’s Story, My Story.

Focusing mainly on case studies from Australia and the United States of America, this book considers how people with dementia represent themselves and are represented in ‘theatre of the real’ productions and care home interventions, assessing the extent to which the ‘right kind’ of dementia story is being affirmed or challenged. It argues that this type of story — one of tragedy, loss of personhood, biomedical deficit, and socio-economic ‘crisis — produces dementia and the people living with it, as much as biology does. It proposes two novel ideas. One is that the ‘gaze’ of theatre and performance offers a reframing of some of the behaviours and actions of people with dementia, through which deficit views can be changed to ones of possibility. The other is that, conversely,dementia offers productive perspectives on ’theatre of the real’. Scanning contemporary critical studies about and practices of ‘theatre of the real’ performances and applied theatre interventions, the book probes what it means when certain ‘theatre of the real’ practices (specifically verbatim and autobiographical) interact with storytellers considered, culturally, to be ‘unreliable narrators’. It also explores whether autobiographical theatre is useful in reinforcing a sense of ‘self’ for those deemed no longer to have one. With a focus on therelationship between stories and selves, the book investigates how selves might be rethought so that they are not contingent on the production of lucid self-narratives, consistent language, and truthful memories.

ISBN: 9783030465476

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-46547-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Performing arts.

LC Class. No.: PN1560-1590

Dewey Class. No.: 790

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