Losing it : staging the cultural conundrum of dementia and decline in American theatre / Dorothy Chansky.
Chansky, Dorothy, author.
2023
PN56.D4645 C53 2023
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Title Losing it : staging the cultural conundrum of dementia and decline in American theatre / Dorothy Chansky.
Author Chansky, Dorothy, author.
ISBN 3031209028 electronic book
9783031209024 electronic book
303120901X
9783031209017
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20902-4
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (329 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-20902-4 doi
Call Number PN56.D4645 C53 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 809/.933561
Summary This monograph is a study of American (U.S.) stage representations of dementia mounted between 1913 and 2019. Its imbricated strands are playtexts; audiences as both the targets of the productions (artifacts in the marketplace) and as anticipated determinants of legibility; and medical science, both as has been (and is) known to researchers and, more importantly, as it has been (and is) known to educated general audiences. As the Baby Boom generation finds itself solidly in the category of Senior, interest in plays that address personal and social issues around cognitive decline as a potentially frightening and expensive experience, no two iterations of which are identical, have, understandably, burgeoned. This study shines a spotlight on eleven dementia plays that have been produced in the United States over the past century, and seeks, in the words of medical humanities scholar Anne Whitehead, to open up, and to hold open, central ethical questions of responsiveness, interpretation, responsibility, complicity and care. Dorothy Chansky is a Professor in the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University, USA, where she is a President's Excellence in Research Professor. She was Founding Director of Tech's Humanities Center and a past President of the American Theatre and Drama Society as well as Vice President for Publications of the American Society for Theatre Research. Dorothys previous publications include Composing Ourselves: The Little Theatre Movement and the American Audience (2004) and Kitchen Sink Realisms: Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama on the American Stage (2015). She was editor of Theatre Annual: A Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas from 2011-2016 and is a former Book Review Editor of Theatre Journal. She is a current member of the Translation, Adaptation, and Dramaturgy Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research.
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
Part I Orientation
1 Introduction
Organization of the Book
Notes
2 Dementia, Alzheimer's, Age: Intersectionalities and an American Context
Notes
3 Bodies in the Audience/Bodies Onstage: Intersectionalities
Notes
Part II Social Insecurity
4 Walk-On: Joint Owners in Spain
Joint Owners: Dramaturgy and Depictions
Dementia In Situ
Critical Reception(s)
Ladies First. Or Last.
Notes
5 Supporting Role: All the Living
The Moment/The Medicine/The Men
Dramatization and Its Discontents

Reading Embodiment
The Next Steps
Notes
6 Willy Loman Center Stage
Doctors' Dilemmas
Seeing Is Believing/Believing Is Seeing
Home. Free.
Notes
Part III Taking It Personally
7 From the Inside
Brain Crash7
"I Am an Archive"60
Notes
8 Inside (and) Out: "Who Exactly Am I?"-The Father
Notes
Part IV Human. Resources.
9 Memory. Loss. Or, Understanding Memory (for Dummies)
Understanding Memory (for Dummies)
Notes
10 Family Affairs
Sign on the Dot(ty)ed Line
Brief Me on This
Notes
11 Ready for Prime Time: Marjorie Prime
Notes

12 Cellular Data
Cellular Data on the Public's Radar
Notes
13 No. Regrets.
Wav(erly)ing Goodbye
Humans. Resources.
Notes
14 Who Cares?
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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