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Dementia, Narrative and Performance: Staging Reality, Reimagining Identities
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Dementia, Narrative and Performance: Staging Reality, Reimagining Identities
Current price: $99.99
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Dementia, Narrative and Performance: Staging Reality, Reimagining Identities
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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 the relationship 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.