Pine, Emilie,

The memory marketplace : witnessing pain in contemporary Irish and international theatre / Emilie Pine. - 1 online resource (262 pages). - Irish Culture, Memory, Place . - Irish culture, memory, and place. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Market for Pain -- Tell Them That You Saw Us: Witnessing Docu-verbatim Memory -- The Witness as Commodity: Autoperforming Memory -- The Commissioned Witness, Theatre, and Truth -- The Immaterial Labor of Listening: Presence, Absence, Failure, and the Commodification of the Witness -- Consumers or Witnesses: Site-Specific Performance -- Conclusion: Activism in the Marketplace.

9780253049513 (e-book)


Theater and society--History--Ireland--21st century.
Drama--Social aspects--History and criticism.--Ireland
Theater and society--History--20th century.
Drama--Social aspects--History and criticism.
Pain in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Collective memory in literature.
Collective memory and literature.


Electronic books.

PN2601 / .P56 2020

792.09415