Surrogate Stages: Theatre, Performance and the Challenge of New Media

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Notes

¹ In 1931 Brecht published a report on the trial surrounding the film adaptation of The Threepenny Opera, Über den Dreigroschenprozeß. The citation reads: ‘The film viewer reads stories differently. But he who writes stories is also a film viewer. The technification of literary production is irreversable.’

²See Albaret (1973). The book formed the basis of a German film by Percy Adlon, Céleste (1981), starring Eva Matthes.

³For an analysis of this performance and of the genre of audio theatre, see Balme (2006).

⁴ www.rimini-protokoll.de Last visited 26 February 2007.

⁵ An interesting postscript: Call Cutta was presented at the 2006 CEBIT in Hannover (no performance) in association with DESCON Ltd.: Hall 6, Stall K53.5, 8-15 March 2006. DESCON is the software and telecommunications firm that provided the call-centre technology and personnel.