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Ending and Excess

Theatre as Being-in-Crisis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2021

Lindsay Goss
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Abstract

In its willingness to expend resources towards the construction of worlds that end, theatre models the possibility of a response to crisis that refuses to make action in the present contingent upon the promise of a future. Three recent works reflect a contemporary metatheatrical preoccupation with this combination of exertion and conclusion, and suggest the need to reimagine conservation and sustainability once we’ve embraced the structuring logic of “the end.”

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Stanford Consortium Issue: Part I
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TDR , Volume 65 , Issue 4 , December 2021 , pp. 51 - 66
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© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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