2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Digital Documents in 21st Century British Documentary Theatre
| Project/Area Number |
16H05937
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Konan Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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| Keywords | documentary theatre / verbatim theatre / digital performance / document / performance studies / documentology / documentary body / corporeality |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project asked how theatre in a digital age can represent human bodies, their histories and experiences when the body itself is a vanishing recording machine. Phase one mapped uses of documents in 21st century British documentary theatre. It was clear that the traditional definition of the document as an official record could not account for the transformations that occur between actors and documents in performance. Phase two broadened the definition of the document to include factors such as space, time, absence, deletion and simulation. It moved from documents as objects to the document as an assemblage of traces created by bodies in performance across time and space. Phase three brought this shifting definition of documents into a pedagogic setting at Konan Women's University through a course in which students experimented with documents in short performances. This research was disseminated in journal articles, a book chapter, newspaper articles, and conference papers.
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| Free Research Field |
英米・英語圏文学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
物質的な遺物を通して「真実」や「証拠」を舞台上で捉え直す現代英国のパフォーマンスに焦点を当てた本研究は、誤情報やフェイクが溢れる昨今のメディアにおける、「記録」、「ドキュメント」という変化し続ける営為とその定義を批評するタイムリーな社会的意義を併せ持つ。
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