PERFORMANCE RESEARCH
VOL.26 ISSUE 1-2
ON HELL

Edited Geraint D’Arcy,
Richard Gough
Published by Routledge
132 pages
ISSN 1352-8165
Softcover

Price: 125 lei


‘On Hell’ is an opportunity to update the scenographic maps of performance technology. At one time, to think of stage technology was to consider the vertical axis of the stage: the open heavens above and the closed underworld of the stage hidden from an audience. In the contemporary theatre space, the diversification of theatrical forms through the twentieth century has witnessed the machinery of the unseen under stage area of the nineteenth-century western theatre vanish along with our sense of what it evokes.

This issue seeks to rediscover that technologized space as a place of historical and scenographic significance in the theatre and to address the relationship between the visible playing space of the contemporary stage with the technological, now that it is no longer hidden in the historical underworld of the theatre. It examines what is now invoked when those technologies emerge and become part of the action, and ponders if once summoned, can what is underneath a stage ever be banished?

CONTENTS:

Editorial
- GERAINT D’ARCY & RICHARD GOUGH

L’Enfer du Théatre
- GERAINT D'ARCY

Hope at the Gates of Hell: Staging Dante’s Inferno behind bars
- RON JENKINS

Anthropocene Hells: Matter and myth in Philippe Quesne’s Night of the Moles
- JAN-TAGE KÜHLING

From Hell to Heterotopia: Romeo Castellucci’s Inferno
- NATALIE KATSOU

Designed to Save: Scenography and ideology in Hell House
- MADELON HOEDT

Hell in the Cave: Falling down to find the light
- SARA FONTANA

Seeing Alone Yet Together: Modern-day Tiresias in VR theatre
- HAKYUNG SIM

The Chamber of Banality: Hell on Earth
- RINA ARYA

Secret Gardens, Ritualistic Renovations and Modernist Failures: On the out loud building of scenographies by Decoratelier
- JASPER DELBECKE

Under the Pier: Staging Anne Imhof’s Sex
- MARY L. COYNE

Words from a Pit
- PEADER KIRK AND TOM CASSANI

Demonic Interventions: On robots as performing subjects
- ANIA MALINOWSKA

Conjuring Sonic Demons in Contemporary Australian Gothic Theatre
- MILES O'NEIL

Technologies of the Hungry Ghosts and Underworld Gods
- ALVIN ENG HUI LIM

The Ghost on the Machine: The Corsican trap and the spirit of industrial capitalism
- GAVIN WHITEHEAD

Looking Back with Orpheus
- RICHARD GOUGH

REVIEWS:

Performance Mediated by Technology: A review of Shakespeare, Spectatorship, and the Technologies of
Performance by Pascale Aebischer
- HAILEY BACHRACH

Technical Challenge: A review of Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre by William B. Worthen
- MICHAEL JOEL BARTELLE

Making Sense of Life and Death: A Review of Andrew Griffin’s Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama
- AURÉLIE BLANC