Staging Loss

1. Staging loss: an introduction.- 2. There is some corner of a Lincolnshire field...: locating commemoration in the performance of Leaving Home; Andrew Westerside.- 3. Watching with mother: 'rejourning' the wartime memories of a Wren, 1946/2016; Karen Savage and Justin Smith.- 4. Commemoration: sacred differentiation of time and space in three WWI projects; Helen Newall.- 5. Making Bolero: dramaturgies of remembrance; Michael Pinchbeck.- 6. Andrew Bovell in the History Wars: Australia's continuing cultural crisis of remembering and forgetting; Donald Pulford.- 7. After them, the flood: remembering, performance and the writing of history; Dan Ellin and Conan Lawrence.- 8. Cheers, Grandad! Third Angel's Cape Wrath and The Lad Lit Project as acts of remembrance; Alexander Kelly.- 9. On Leaving the House: the loss of self and the search for "the freedom of being" in The Wooster Group's Vieux Carré; Andrew Quick.- 10. The God, the owner & the master: staging rites of passage in the maritime crossing the line ceremony; Lisa Gaughan.- 11. Staging absence and the (un)making of memory in A Duet Without You; Chloé Déchery.- 12. Trace: shame and the art of mourning; Louie Jenkins.- 13. The performative ritual of loss: marking the intangible; Clare Parry-Jones.- 14. Searching shadows, lighting bones: commemorative performance as a radical, open-ended and ethical action; Emily Orley.- 15. Conclusion: Some words speak of events. Other words, events make us speak.

Michael Pinchbeck is MA Theatre Programme leader and Principal Lecturer (Professional Practice) in Drama at the University of Lincoln, UK. He completed a PhD at Loughborough University exploring the role of the dramaturg in contemporary performance. As a writer and theatre-maker, he was commissioned by Nottingham Playhouse to write The White Album (2006), The Ashes (2011) and Bolero (2014), which toured Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kosovo supported by the British Council. Andrew Westerside is Senior Lecturer in Drama & Theatre at the University of Lincoln's School of Fine and Performing Arts, UK, and Co-Artistic Director of Proto-type Theater. Andrew is a performer, writer, director and academic. He has performed and toured nationally and internationally and directed work including: The Good, the God and the Guillotine (2013), A Machine they're Secretly Building (2016), Fallen (2016) and The Audit (2018).