Research notes: Displayed texts on-stage (Jurs-Munby, 2010)

Jürs-Munby, K. (2010) Text Exposed: Displayed texts as players onstage in contemporary theatre. Journal of Media Practice, 30(1) 101-114.

  • “for contemporary postdramatic performance practices […] graphic/literal writing interacts with other ‘writings’ (and ‘readings’) and can be isolated and exposed to subvert the illusion of totality” (103)
  • “the world we live in has itself become much more technologically mediated and profoundly more complex in its entwinement of the virtual and the actual.” (104)
  • “‘Reading is made possible by temporal discontinuity, by the persistence of a discourse in time, by the disparity between the author’s intention and the reader’s interpretation’.” (106 – from Savran, 1986, 170) – Savran, David (1986), Breaking the Rules: The Wooster Group. New York: Theatre Communications Group.
  • “The resistance of performers against text and vice versa can function to disturb ideological normalization and ‘business as usual’.” (112)
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