Theatre and the Virtual: Genesis, Touch, Gesture

Theatre and the Virtual offers conceptual tools to articulate and engender theatrical potentiality, opening bodies to a region of ongoing genesis and abandoning regimes of constraint through ecological attunement. It proposes a theatre of the virtual that safeguards the possibility of the extra-epistemological and creates a fractured record of the wondrous mutations of a moving, gesturing body.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 158 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Theatre and the Virtual presents a comprehensive set of conceptual tools for the exploration and manifestation of the inherent theatrical potentiality. By forging a pathway toward a reimagining of the present, a theatre of the virtual unleashes bodies into motion, inviting them to immerse themselves in a realm of continuous force generation. The result is the abandonment of restrictive regimes through a radical practice of ecological attunement. Violence is eschewed through an onto-ecology of touch, which fosters the repotentialization of closed systems to become co-constitutive of their surrounding environments. A logic of spectrality emerges, encompassing not entities but atmospheres, not beings but styles of being, and not bodies but myriad milieus of response. This is the fundamental purpose of a theatre of the virtual—to safeguard the possibility of the extra-epistemological and uphold one's right to offer accounts of oneself from outside of being, all while creating a fragmented record of the wondrous mutations of a moving, gesturing body.

This book holds immense appeal to students and scholars engaged in the fields of theatre, philosophy, new materialisms, environmental humanities, gesture, and the ontology of response. Its insights and methodologies offer valuable perspectives on the creative possibilities inherent in theatrical performance, the philosophical implications of embodiment, and the intricate relationships between human beings, their environments, and the broader spectrum of existence.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032138459