Add to ORKGThis book confronts the difficult relationship between theatre and cancer. It explores representations of cancer in fictional worlds and autobiographical performances while also highlighting work that reimagines and reinvigorates the genre of ‘Cancer Performance’. Challenging conventional narratives which rely on the binary of tragedy versus survival, Brian Lobel argues for an alternative approach to understanding cancer in relation to theatre
At the beginning of Mike Nichols' film Wit (US, 2001, film, 99min), Professor Vivian Bearing is...
The two essays that comprise this thesis use personal narrative to discuss various aspects of illnes...
The paper focuses on literary genres that thematize diseases – pathographies. Specifically, in their...
This essay delves into the portrayal of the “unpresentable” in contemporary performances centered ar...
Playing the Cancer Card: Illness, Performance and Spectatorship investigates the experience of spect...
Fun with Cancer Patients: Practice-Based Research and the Affect of Cancer examines Fun with Cancer ...
Biomedical protocols and cultural metaphors of cancer enact the disease as an individual condition. ...
The situation of an illness is often interpreted as an adverse change in a person’s situation, which...
This new title in the Theatre And series confronts the complex relationship between theatre and deat...
This essay considers the use that twenty-first-century fictionalized cancer narratives make of Shake...
Living and Dying with Cancer is a powerful and moving account of the experiences of those affected b...
This chapter will demonstrate the potential for performance to blur the boundaries between the medic...
The present study is based on the qualitative exploration of Cancer narratives through the lens of L...
Book synopsis: To what extent is theatre a contagious practice, capable of undoing and enlivening pe...
Cancer has long been a cultural touchstone: a metaphor of devastation and a spectre of social as wel...
At the beginning of Mike Nichols' film Wit (US, 2001, film, 99min), Professor Vivian Bearing is...
The two essays that comprise this thesis use personal narrative to discuss various aspects of illnes...
The paper focuses on literary genres that thematize diseases – pathographies. Specifically, in their...
This essay delves into the portrayal of the “unpresentable” in contemporary performances centered ar...
Playing the Cancer Card: Illness, Performance and Spectatorship investigates the experience of spect...
Fun with Cancer Patients: Practice-Based Research and the Affect of Cancer examines Fun with Cancer ...
Biomedical protocols and cultural metaphors of cancer enact the disease as an individual condition. ...
The situation of an illness is often interpreted as an adverse change in a person’s situation, which...
This new title in the Theatre And series confronts the complex relationship between theatre and deat...
This essay considers the use that twenty-first-century fictionalized cancer narratives make of Shake...
Living and Dying with Cancer is a powerful and moving account of the experiences of those affected b...
This chapter will demonstrate the potential for performance to blur the boundaries between the medic...
The present study is based on the qualitative exploration of Cancer narratives through the lens of L...
Book synopsis: To what extent is theatre a contagious practice, capable of undoing and enlivening pe...
Cancer has long been a cultural touchstone: a metaphor of devastation and a spectre of social as wel...
At the beginning of Mike Nichols' film Wit (US, 2001, film, 99min), Professor Vivian Bearing is...
The two essays that comprise this thesis use personal narrative to discuss various aspects of illnes...
The paper focuses on literary genres that thematize diseases – pathographies. Specifically, in their...