Digital Spoken Word Theatre in the UK: Navigating the Theatre Screen with Rose Condo’s The Geography of Me
- Autor(en)
- Shefali Banerji
- Abstrakt
Spoken word theatre appeared on the scene of British poetry performance in the 1990 s. The art form privileges the (hyper-)visibility of the poet-performer where practitioners present their work in their customary style in a long form live show. In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, several previously on-site shows moved to the domain of the digital. In this article, I explore four types of such virtual adaptations by women practitioners with emphasis on performance strategies and the politics of visibility. I then engage in an in-depth analysis of The Geography of Me by UK-based Canadian poet Rose Condo to study the salient features and discontents of digital spoken word theatre and Condo’s use of pre-recorded material. I also examine how this strategy negotiates the expectation of visibility of a gendered body in spoken word theatre. I argue that the use of pre-recorded material helps control the unpredictability of online performance conditions and mitigates the risks associated with performing traumatic narratives.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
- Journal
- Journal of Contemporary Drama in English
- Band
- 13
- Seiten
- 108-126
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 19
- ISSN
- 2195-0156
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2025-2007
- Publikationsdatum
- 04-2025
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 602008 Anglistik, 604006 Darstellende Kunst, 602003 Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft
- Schlagwörter
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/80f61387-791a-414e-b835-d5b52cf95d8a