Naslov
The Power of “feeling Nothing” in Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman’s play The 7 Stages of Grieving

Autori
Polak, Iva

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Adaptation: Theory, Criticism and Pedagogy

Urednik/ci
Matek, Ljubica ; Uvanović, Željko

Izdavač
Shaker

Grad
Aachen

Godina
2018

Raspon stranica
119-132

ISBN
978-3-8440-5062-2

ISSN
2367-041X

Ključne riječi
The 7 Stages of Grieving ; Wesley Enoch ; Deborah Mailman ; Kübler-Ross model ; reconciliation ; performative ; constative

Sažetak
Since its first staging in 1995, the Australia Aboriginal play The 7 Stages of Grieving written by then unknown Aboriginal director Wesley Enoch and Aboriginal actress Deborah Mailman, remains a vital masterwork providing a raw yet cathartic experience of cultural trauma. By adapting the so-called Kübler-Ross model of the five stages of grief (denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) and the seven stages of Aboriginal history (Dreaming, invasion, genocide, protection, assimilation, self determination, and reconciliation), the play is an invitation into an uneasy territory of charting cultural trauma. The rawness of experience of the nameless woman in this one-woman play is matched with a block of ice suspended above the stage, which gradually melts during her performance. It will be argued that this double act of melting topped with the power of the performative “nothing” shows how the adaptation of the (post)traumatic body can become a site of inscription and a site of the inscriber.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Kazališna umjetnost (scenske i medijske umjetnosti)

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