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Title: | The Corpse Corpses: Non-Professional Performers and Misperformance | Contributor(s): | Hay, Christopher (author) | Publication Date: | 2015 | Open Access: | Yes | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20697 | Open Access Link: | http://www.performanceparadigm.net/index.php/journal/article/view/161 | Abstract: | Halfway through post's production of 'Oedipus Schmoedipus', performer Mish Grigor drags a dead body across the stage. Mish delicately arranges the body, that of a volunteer performer who has been 'playing dead', into a kind of deformed 'pietà', cradled across the arms and lap of fellow performer Zoë Coombs Marr. Mish is supporting the back of the body's head, and stroking her arm lovingly. 'So the greats tell us that when you're dead', begins Zoë, before she is cut off by a sharp laugh from the audience.1 She looks down to find that the body in her arms, trembling almost imperceptibly, has begun to smile. She tries again, 'that when you're dead', slapping the body lightly across the face, only to have the body upstage her once more by breaking into a wide grin. Zoë angles her head down and continues her line straight into the body's ear: 'it's just like being asleep. And dreaming'. The body behaves, the laughter dies down, and the show continues. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Performance Paradigm, v.11, p. 46-58 | Publisher: | University of New South Wales | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 1832-5580 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting) 190404 Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies 200502 Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature) |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 360201 Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting) 360401 Applied theatre 470502 Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature) |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950105 The Performing Arts (incl. Theatre and Dance) 970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130104 The performing arts 280122 Expanding knowledge in creative arts and writing studies |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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