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Theatre as Voyeurism

The Pleasures of Watching

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  • © 2015

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  1. George Rodosthenous

    1. University of Leeds, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Staring at the Forbidden: Legitimizing Voyeurism

    1. Introduction: Staring at the Forbidden: Legitimizing Voyeurism

      • George Rodosthenous
      Pages 1-25

  6. Voyeurism and Exhibiting the Body

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. Thinking Critical/Looking Sexy: A Naked Male Body in Performance

      • Daniël Ploeger
      Pages 147-165

    3. Viewing the Pornographic Theatre: Explicit Voyeurism, Artaud and Ann Liv Young’s Cinderella

      • Aaron C. Thomas
      Pages 166-184

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 226-230
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About this book

Theatre as Voyeurism (re)defines voyeurism as an 'exchange' between performers and audience members, privileging pleasure (erotic and aesthetic) as a crucial factor in contemporary theatre. This intriguing group of essays focuses on artists such as Jan Fabre, Romeo Castellucci, Ann Liv Young, Olivier Dubois and Punchdrunk.

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“The volume offers rich critical engagements with this theatrical voyeur by asking what pleasures, intersubjective relations, and sensorial dynamics might emerge from such a model of spectatorship. … Theatre as Voyeurism succeeds at articulating an exciting and novel theoretical frame and is a valuable collection for any scholar interested in spectatorship, the auteur, and/or the erotics of performance.” (Matthew C. Stone, Theatre Journal, Vol. 59 (4), December, 2017)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Leeds, UK

    George Rodosthenous

About the editor

Fiona Bannon, University of Leeds, UK Luk Van den Dries, University of Antwerp, Belgium Laurens De Vos, University of Amsterdam, Holland William McEvoy, University of Sussex, UK Eleni Papalexiou, University of the Peloponnese, Nafplion, Greece Daniël Ploeger, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK David Shearing, University of Leeds, UK Tim Stephenson, University of Leeds, UK Aaron C. Thomas, Dartmouth College, USA

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