I am swimming in the deep, deep waters of performativity and stage; that is, Butlerian performativity and Schechnerian stage. It is for the purposes of my thesis, and a very muddled place to be (not a place you’d pop over to straight before breakfast, say). But while wrestling with the questions of what it means when we do what we do, it was a pleasure to find that Andrew Haydon is back discussing cross-whatever casting, and how it relates to the questions of realism and representation in the theatre.
His post is here, and it is worth reading in total, including the more-or-less disgruntled comments. He raises all isues: race, gender, accent, realism, convention, British or Germanic, and spends more meaningful time on it than anyone I have seen recently. Do please have a read.
“and spends more meaningful time on it than anyone I have seen recently…”
Without, curiously, managing to reach any useful conclusions
Thanks for reading and sending readers, though. Keep meaning to comment on some of your stuff, but bloody plays keep cropping up demanding to be reviewed.
Soon, hopefully…