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- Title
Performing Simulacra: Human/Animal Intersections in the Work of Sarah Kane.
- Authors
Soncini, Sara
- Abstract
This article looks at the presence and function of animals in the dramatic works of Sarah Kane. The by now massive scholarship on Kane has tended to see her work as epitomizing the move beyond the dramatic paradigm famously theorized by Hans-Thies Lehmann, and as equally marked by increasingly dehumanized constructions of subjectivity that culminate in the disembodied theatrical landscapes of her late plays. The research presented here addresses a hitherto unexplored dimension to Kane’s joint engagement with the boundaries of subjectivity and the boundaries of theatre, namely, the pervasive presence of animals across her entire oeuvre and their thought-provoking intersections with the human subjects with whom they share the stage. Through a combination of textual and performance analysis, I chart the complex, changing configurations of this relationship of co-habitation and mutual implication, offering a comprehensive discussion of the role of animals as key players in Kane’s dramaturgy of simulacra.
- Subjects
IDENTIFICATION of animals; CONTENT analysis; HUMAN beings; DRAMATIC structure; SUBJECTIVITY; PERFORMANCES
- Publication
BETWEEN, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 24, p483
- ISSN
2039-6597
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13125/2039-6597/5192