Sarah Kane's Theatre of Psychic LifeAuthor :
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Published : Monday 1 January 1900
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The first book to focus exclusively on playwright Sarah Kanes approach to mind and mental health; it brings together archival material, healthcare contexts and contemporary performances. As such, it offers an important re-evaluation of Kanes oeuvre, revealing the relationship between theatre and mind, which lies at the heart of her theatrical project. Drawing on performance theory, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, this book argues that Kanes innovations generated a `dramaturgy of psychic life, which re-shape the encounter between stage and audience. It uses previously unseen archival material and contemporary productions to uncover the mechanics of this innovative theatre practice. Through a radically open-ended approach to dramaturgy, Kanes works offer urgent insights into mental suffering that take us beyond traditional discourses of empathy and `mental health and into a profound rethinking of theatre as a mode of thought. It makes a case for the relevance of Kanes work to understandings of contemporary diagnostic categories and places it in urgent debates about mental health in the medical humanities.
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