Explores the integration and interaction of mimetic theatricality and representational media in twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. The book brings together carefully chosen sites of performance in which mediatization and mimesis compete and collude to represent the real to audiences.
Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief explores the integration and interaction of mimetic theatricality and representational media in twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. It focuses on performances that force confrontation between notions of authenticity and artifice.
