Staging Loss

Chapter 1 Staging Loss: An Introduction

Chapter 2 There is Some Corner of a Lincolnshire Field…: Locating Commemoration in the Performance of Leaving Home

Chapter 3 Deference, Deferred: Rejourn as Practice in Familial War Commemoration

Chapter 4 Commemoration: Sacred Differentiation of Time and Space in Three World War I Projects

Chapter 5 Making Bolero : Dramaturgies of Remembrance

Chapter 6 Andrew Bovell in the History Wars: Australia’s Continuing Cultural Crisis of Remembering and Forgetting

Chapter 7 After Them, The Flood: Remembering, Performance and the Writing of History

Chapter 8 CHEERS GRANDAD! Third Angel’s Cape Wrath and The Lad Lit Project as Acts of Remembrance

Chapter 9 On Leaving the House: The Loss of Self and the Search for “The Freedom of Being” in The Wooster Group’s Vieux Carré

Chapter 10 ‘The God, the Owner & the Master’ (Barthes, 1979): Staging Rites of Passage in the Maritime Crossing the Line Ceremony

Chapter 11 Staging Absence and Performing Collaboration in A Duet Without You

Chapter 12 Trace: Shame and the Art of Mourning

Chapter 13 Performative Ritual of Loss—Marking the Intangible

Chapter 14 Searching Shadows, Lighting Bones: Commemorative Performance as an Open-Ended Negotiation

Chapter 15 Staging Loss: A Conclusion— Some Words Speak of Events. Other Words, Events Make Us Speak