TY - BOOK ID - 136225708 TI - Authenticity in contemporary theatre and performance : make it real AU - Schulze, Daniel AU - Brater, Enoch AU - Taylor-Batty, Mark PY - 2017 SN - 1350086657 1350000973 9781350000988 1350000981 9781350000971 9781350000995 135000099X 9781350000964 1350000965 PB - London, England : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, DB - UniCat KW - Theater KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136225708 AB - Authenticity is one of the major values of our time. It is visible everywhere, from clothing to food to self-help books. While it is such a prevalent phenomenon, it is also very evasive. This study analyses the 'culture of authenticity' as it relates to theatre and establishes a theoretical framework for analysis. Daniel Schulz argues that authenticity is sought out and marked by the individual and springs from a culture that is perceived as inherently fake and lacking depth. The study examines three types of performances that exemplify this structure of feeling: intimate theatre seen in Forced Entertainment productions such as Quizoola! (1996, 2015), as well as one-on-one performances, such as Oentroerend Goed's Internal (2009); immersive theatres as illustrated by Punchdrunk's shows The Masque of the Red Death (2007) and The Drowned Man (2013) which provide a visceral, sensate understanding for audiences. It is specifically the value of the document that lends such performances their truth-value and consequently their authenticity. The study analyses how the success of these disparate categories of performance can be explained through a common concern with notions of truth and authenticity. It argues that this hunger for authentic, unmediated experience is characteristic of a structure of feeling that has superseded postmodernism and that actively seeks to resignify artistic and cultural practices of the everyday.--publisher. ER -