MacKenzie, Neil
(2005)
Epilogue.
[Conference or Workshop Item]
(Unpublished)
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Conference or Workshop Item
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| Peer-reviewed: |
No
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| Date Deposited: |
22 Sep 2009 14:53
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| Additional Information: |
'Epilogue' is a small-scale performance piece for three performers with audience seated on four sides. It is an epilogue to the ‘Re-Placing Texts Trilogy’ through the act of performing the imagining of narrative epilogues to the source texts of the trilogy. Initially presented without iconic signification from lighting, sound or costume, and with the performers' hands over their eyes, the piece proposed the performance of fiction as a physical task, highlighting through this problematic audience members’ consciousness of their own relationship with, and responsibility to, the bodies of the performers. The piece questions assumptions about the tasks of performers and audiences, and the relationship between them. Highlighting the multiplicity of performance ‘worlds’ that might exist between the notional duality of the ‘fictional’ and the ‘live’, 'Epilogue' aims to leave audience members re-negotiating their level of acknowledgement and impact in and on the piece, the extent of the fictional identity of the space and the conventions operating to define their role as audience. 'Epilogue' continues the core project of the trilogy, addressing the co-existence of canonical dramatic text and self-conscious performance practice, whilst extending previous explorations into the performance/audience relationship and proposing how a previous performance (or series of performances) might operate as the textual basis for a new performance piece. Tour: 2005 - PARIP 05 International Conference, University of Leeds; Greenroom, Manchester; and MMU, Cheshire. It received development support of £2000 from Greenroom, Manchester. Documentation: DVD; 'Epilogue' was selected for and peer reviewed at PARIP 05 International Conference, where it was accompanied by my paper, ‘The Spectating Director’; See also Turner, Jane (2007) ‘Acts of Creative Vandalism? Plane Performance Deconstruct the Canon’, NTQ 23:3; See also the draft of Mackenzie, N ‘The Performer’s Predicament’ (proposed for Studies in Theatre and Performance, 2008). |
| Divisions: |
Faculties > MMU Cheshire (Legacy) |
| URI: |
https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/82104 |
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