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Author Tomkinson, Matthew, 1989- author.

Title Sound and sense in contemporary theatre : mad auralities / Matthew Tomkinson
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2025]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 169 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Listening cures: on acousmatic sound in Ridiculusmus's The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland -- Mediated mindscapes: on staging acoustic interiority in Katie Mitchell's Ophelia's Zimmer and Janet Cardiff's Her Long Black Hair -- Staging medicine and sounding madness in Suvindrini Lena's Here Are the Fragments -- Notes on mad listening
Summary This book is among the first to consider the subject of mad auralities in theatre and performance, asking: what does it mean to hear and listen madly? Drawing widely upon mad studies, critical disability studies, theatre studies, sound studies, queer studies, and critical race theory, it seeks to explore the theatrical relationship between sound and mental health differences by examining a range of case studies in which audience members are immersed in auditory simulations of madness. Ultimately, however, this critical study investigates the shortcomings of simulation as a representational practice, in keeping with the critical tradition of disability studies and mad studies.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Matthew Tomkinson is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES) at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from UBC, where he studies sound within disability arts cultures. His postdoctoral research examines multimedia adaptations of Daniel Paul Schreber's memoirs
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Subject Theaters -- Sound effects.
Sound -- Psychological aspects.
Sound -- Physiological effect.
Theater audiences -- Psychology.
Mental health.
Mental health personnel and patient -- Health and hygiene
sound effects.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783031780349
3031780345
Other Titles Mad auralities