Theatre and the macabre / edited by Meredith Conti and Jr. Jr. Wetmore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conti, Meredith, editor.

Wetmore, Jr., Kevin J., editor.

Series:

Horror studies.

Horror studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror plays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, England : University of Wales Press, [2022]

Summary:

Theatre and the Macabre explores the morbid and gruesome onstage, from freak shows to the French Grand Guignol, from immersive theatre to dark tourism, stopping along the way to look at phantoms, severed heads, dances of death and dismembered bodies.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction: I Made the Dance of Death

Part One: Histories of the Macabre

1. The Mortification of Harvey Leach

2. The Horrors of the Great War on the London Stage

3. Phantoms of the Stage

Part Two: Dramaturgies of the Macabre

4. Time and Punishment

5. The Body Dismembered

6. Macabre Children on the Australian Stage

7. Martin McDonagh's Hangmen

8. Fear of Death and Lyrical Flight

Part Three: Staging the Macabre

9. The Severed Head on Stage

10. Dancing Haunted Legacies

11. 'To Die Over and Over Inside My Body'

Part Four: The Immersive Macabre

12. 'Black and Deep Desires'

13. The Dark Ride Immersive and the Danse Macabre

14. Liveness and Aliveness

15. American Hells

16. Haunting the Stage

Bibliography

Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Wetmore, Jr., Kevin J. Theatre and the Macabre

ISBN:

9781786838476

1786838478