Authorship
Moodle Asks
- What is an author?
- Does it matter to the reader to know who the author of a text is?
- Why does it seem to be more important to know about the author of some types of text (novels, poems, plays) than others (posters, adverts, contracts)?
- Does an author control the meaning of a text?
- Does the reader have any role in determining/negotiating meaning?
- What about the theatre: does writing for theatre pose different questions about authorship than other kinds of writing?
- We look at the meaning and purpose of a writer through French theorists Roland Barthes ('Death of the Author', 1968) and Michel Foucault ('What is an Author?', 1969)
- Disscusses the importance of a author, how a plays sole purpose and meaning can depend on who the author is i.e.
o A play that took place in a studio with a selected music type and playlist which always played in the background of the piece
o A play that followed a deep discussion with the author
o A play that took place in the centre of a split stage with one side being one parent the other being the other parents
- Or how the plays purpose and meaning is only dependent on the audience i.e.
o Finding the demographic of the audience and then acting the piece accordingly
o Look at theatre of the dark thus piece would depend on audiences response of the dark – Theatre in the Dark by Adam Alston and Martin Welton
Theatre in the Dark: Shadow, Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary Theatre responds to a rising tide of experimentation in theatre practice that eliminates or obscures light. It brings together leading and emerging practitioners and researchers in a volume dedicated to exploring the phenomenon and showcasing a range of possible critical and theoretical approaches.
o Also invitational plays and pieces where the audience is selected depending on who they are
- Reading done for Class
o Audre Lorde - The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action found in - Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde. 2nd edition pages 40-44.
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