Theatres of Contagion: Transmitting Early Modern to Contemporary Performance.

Verlander, Freya

I first picked up I Theatres of Contagion i in March 2020, following the theatre closures during the initial COVID-19 lockdown, with questions on the future of touch in immersive theatre and performance works. In Part 2, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr considers the ways in which nineteenth-century theatre borrowed and adapted scientific notions of heredity and, in turn, how this adaptation blurred notions of social and viral contagion.

COLLECTIVE behavior; PSYCHOLOGICAL factors; SOCIAL contagion; HAZARDOUS wastes; EMOTIONAL contagion

Theatre Survey, 2021, Vol 62, Issue 2, p240

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Review

10.1017/S004055742100017X