AustLit
The Politics and Poetics of Listening: Attending Headphone Verbatim Theatre in Post-Cronulla Australia
single work
Issue Details:
First known date:
2014...
2014
The Politics and Poetics of Listening: Attending Headphone Verbatim Theatre in Post-Cronulla Australia
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
Latest Issues
AbstractHistoryArchive Description
'This article analyses Stories of Love & Hate, a headphone verbatim play produced in the aftermath of the Cronulla Riots in Sydney, Australia. While verbatim theatre typically invites audiences to listen therapeutically, Stories of Love & Hate enacts and enables two alternative forms of listening. First, it enacts the paradoxical mode of ‘ethical eavesdropping’; second, it enables the metatheatrical mode of ‘mediatized listening’. In doing so, the play asks spectators to reconsider whom they listen to and how. It also asks scholars to reconsider claims that verbatim theatre gives voice to those who go unheard by the media. Instead, the article argues that in the case of Stories of Love & Hate, headphone verbatim theatre enables the audience to listen to how the media listen.' (Publication abstract)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Last amended 9 Feb 2017 12:50:04
Subjects:
- Stories of Love and Hate 2008 single work drama
- Cronulla, Caringbah - Cronulla area, Sutherland area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
- 2005
Export this record