Epistemic Theatres: The Dramaturgy of Knowledge in Twenty-First Century Theatre

<p>In this dissertation, I draw upon theatre and performance literature, science and technology studies, and art theory to attend the distinctive dramaturgical features of lecture-performance and other contemporary examples of epistemic theatres. After theorizing their roots, their causes, and their objectives, I build on the intrinsic and mutual links these performances develop between theatre and knowledge to justify and develop novel academic modes of response that consider theatre as a method, and not merely an object, of humanistic study. I propose that a theatricalization of knowledge—or rather, a more explicit acknowledgement of knowledge’s engrained theatricality—helps in developing intellectual-academic responses not only to the new forms of theatre, but also to the spirit of information that birthed it.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Theatre and Performance

Grantor

The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York

Year dc:date.available

2024

Author dc:creator

• Farjoun, Amir

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Erika T. Lin

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Peter Eckersall
• Claire Bishop

• Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory
• Other Theatre and Performance Studies
• Performance Studies
• theatre
• theater
• lecture-performance
• epistemology
• lecture
• dramaturgy

Repository record dc:identifier

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5634

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-6733