Aesthetic distance as deus ex machina when the performer’s trauma is (not quite/quiet)

Title
Aesthetic distance as deus ex machina when the performer’s trauma is (not quite/quiet)
Description
This article employs Practice as Research (PaR) as a paradigm to explicate the specialised research insights produced during the theatre-making process of devising and performing ReTAGS’ Antigone (not quite/quiet). I revisit Sophocles’ original Antigone, reading the circumstances of the titular character alongside the contemporary reality of postapartheid South Africa. I further employ the register of tragedy to develop my earlier conception of mbokodofication and interrogate the transgressive potential of aesthetic distance to mitigate retraumatization in performance and maintain the emotional hygiene of the performer.
Creator
Balindile ka Ngcobo
Date Issued
10 August 2023
Relation
Antigone (not quite/quiet)
Source
Link to article
keywords
mbokodofication
VAW
post-dramatic stress
aesthetic distance
trauma
Antigone
Type
Article
Format
pdf
Language
English
Publisher
Taylor & Francis