The Seeing Place: Talking Theatre and Medicine

Autor/inn/en	Bowman, Deborah; Bowman, Joanna
Titel	The Seeing Place: Talking Theatre and Medicine
Quelle	In: Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 17 (2018) 1, S.166-181 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-0222
Schlagwörter	Theater Arts; Medicine; Ethics; Performance; Drama; Novels; Health; Diseases; Patients + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Theaterwissenschaft; Medizin; Ethik; Achievement; Leistung; Schauspiel; Novel; Roman; Gesundheit; Disease; Krankheit; Patient
Abstract	A Professor of Medical Ethics and a theatre director, also mother and daughter, talk about health, illness, suffering, performance and practice. Using the lenses of ethical and performance theory, they explore what it means to be a patient, a spectator and a practitioner and cover many plays, texts and productions: Samuel Beckett's "Not I" and "All That Fall," Sarah Kane's Crave, Tim Crouch's "An Oak Tree," Enda Walsh's "Ballyturk," Annie Ryan's adaptation of Eimear McBride's novel "A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing," Duncan MacMillan's "People, Place and Things" and Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler." These were selected because first we have seen, studied or worked with each and they have continued to inspire us. Second, they offer rich and revealing insights into the ways in which meaning(s) is/are both negotiated and contested in relation to health and illness. It is the iterative negotiation of meaning(s) that, it is argued, is the essence of narrative practice, be it in medicine or in the theatre. The difference and divergence of perception, response and interpretation to dramatic performance can test relationships, be they professional, creative or familial. Yet, the capacity to understand, and embrace, disagreement and uncertainty is vital; fundamental to a flourishing life. For it is by recognising our part in creating narratives, broken and otherwise, that we can begin to recognise the necessary interactionism and humanity of both medicine and theatre. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01