Date of Award
5-2023
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
First Advisor
Lisa Clair
Second Advisor
Caden Manson
Abstract
The author seeks to define the preconditions for creating performance text that has the possibility to not only create exciting compelling performance; but also has the affordance to radically change the way in which dramatic theatre is produced. In creating their own dramaturgy, Jeremy Kadetsky draws inspiration from the post-structural linguistic writings of Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva; the queer theory espoused by Jack Halberstam and Sarah Ahmed; and the written and realized work of contemporary American playwrights Suzan-Lori Parks, Sibyl Kempson, and Agnes Borinsky. Ultimately, they find a working criteria for writing in a way that promotes fecundity, jouissance, and revolution that acknowledges the positive and negative violence of writing and language in the creative, social, and political spheres.
Recommended Citation
Kadetsky, Jeremy, "Destabilize (Achtung) Baby: performance text, phenomenon, and writing as a condition for radicalizing an historically bourgeois artform" (2023). Theatre Thesis - Written Thesis. 11.
https://digitalcommons.slc.edu/theatre_written/11
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