Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres

Bibliographic Data

ID5774438
AuthorsFintan Walsh (corresponding author)
Year2024
Publication date2024-04-19
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenuePerforming Grief in Pandemic Theatres (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781009464826
OpenAlexW4394960728
ISBN9781009464826
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited27

This Element explores how theatre responded to the death and loss produced by the COVID-19 pandemic, by innovating forms and spaces designed to support us in grief. It considers how theatre grieved for itself, for the dead, for lost ways of living, while also imagining and enacting new modes of being together. Even as it reckoned with its own demise, theatre endeavoured to collectivise grief by performing a range of functions more commonly associated with funerary, health and social care services, which buckled under restrictions and neglect. These pandemic theatres show how grief cannot only be let mourn over individual losses in private, but how it must also seep into the public sphere to fight to save critical services, institutions, communities and art forms, including theatre itself

Demise · Pandemic · Art Therapy and Mental Health · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Theatre and Performance Studies

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