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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Genealogies of Darkness
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'The reimagining of the blackout is one of the more notable features of Australian theatre scenography over the last twenty years. However, the nature and role of blackout and darkness are rarely discussed with any rigour or even sustained attention. Despite its increasing presence on our stages, darkness is, with some notable exceptions, missing from our critical discourses - it is nothing, it is no thing.' (Publication abstract)

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  • Epigraph:

    To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart ... (Maurice Blanchot)

    The theatre, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything – gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness ...(Antonin Artaud)

    There is a darkness in the soulthat loves the eyes. There is a lightin the mind that sees only lightand will not enter the darkness.(Wendell Berry, ‘The Dead Calf ’)

     

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    y separately published work icon Australasian Drama Studies no. 79 December 2021 23749528 2021 periodical issue

    'In approaching the editorial for this special issue, we began by reflecting on the processes that we had been through in writing and gathering content. Meeting in Yoni Prior’s backyard, we began preliminary discussions just before the pandemic hit again and agreed that we wanted to include lots of conversations. We wanted to make space in the issue for people to talk. The pandemic initially upset this desire to place the recorder on the table and talk, but as is all too familiar now, Zoom offered us the chance to extend our conversations across locked-down suburbs, closed borders, even oceans, and to gather people together in new ways. So, coming to write the editorial, we thought it best to continue the theme of talking. Locked down as we still were in Melbourne, we met over Zoom to discuss new dramaturgies of sound and vision. (Pia Johnson and Miles O'Neil Editorial introduction)

         2021     pg. 319-336
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