Citational Theory in Practice: A Performance Analysis of Characterisation and Identity in Katie Mitchell’s Staging of Martin Crimp’s Texts

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Notes

1.  Elinor Fuchs, The Death of Character: Perspectives on Theater after Modernism (Bloomington: University of Indianapolis Press, 1996).

2.  Liz Tomlin, Acts and Apparitions: Discourses on the Real in Performance Practice and Theory 1990–2010 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013).

3.  Jaber Gubrium and James Holstein, The Self We Live By: Narrative Identity in a Postmodern World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 60.

4.  Ibid.

5.  Mireia Aragay and Clara Escoda, ‘Postdramatism, Ethics, and the Role of Light in Martin Crimp’s Fewer Emergencies (2005)’, New Theatre Quarterly, 28 (Spring 2012), 133–42 (p. 137).

6.  David Barnett, ‘When Is a Play Not a Drama? Two Examples of Postdramatic Theatre Texts’, New Theatre Quarterly, 24 (Winter 2008), 14–23 (p. 17).

7.  See Tomlin, Acts and Apparitions, pp. 79–113; Shannon Jackson, Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 182; and Jon McKenzie, Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance (London: Routledge, 2001), p. 215.

8.  Jacques Derrida, Margins of Philosophy, trans. by Alan Bass (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1982), p. 320. Emphasis in original.

9.  National Theatre Education Workpack, ed. by Emma Gosden (London: The Royal National Theatre Board, 2007), <http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/document/attempts-on-her-life-background-pack> [accessed 6 January 2014], p. 6.

10.  Other key productions featuring such devices include Waves (2007), … Some Trace of Her (2008), Fräulein Julie (2010), Reise durch die Nacht (2012), all directed by Katie Mitchell.

11.  Derrida, Margins of Philosophy, p. 320.

12.  Liz Tomlin, ‘“And their stories fell apart even as I was telling them”: Poststructuralist Performance and the No-Longer-Dramatic Playtext’, Performance Research, 14 (Winter 2009), 57–64.

13.  Martin Crimp, The City (London: Faber and Faber, 2008), p. 10.

14.  Ibid., p. 62.

15.  Ibid., p. 63.

16.  Tomlin, ‘“And their stories fell apart even as I was telling them”’, p. 63.

17.  Crimp, The City, p. 62.

18.  Kenneth J. Gergen, The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life (New York: Basic Books, 1991), p. 7.