The Rehearsal
Pigeon Theatre’s Trilogy of Performance Works on Playing Dead
9781841505565
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The Rehearsal
Pigeon Theatre’s Trilogy of Performance Works on Playing Dead
Pigeon Theatre—comprised of Anna Fenemore, Gillian Knox, and Amanda Griffkin—specializes in experimental works that incorporate non-traditional spaces, unconventional social arrangements, and shared intimacies between performer and audience. A trilogy of site-specific performance texts, The Rehearsal raises questions about theinterplay in contemporary theater between the process of rehearsal and the theatrical metaphors that shape our everyday dealings with trauma, including death. Accompanied by critical essays, these studio-based works—developed using verbatim strategies—explore the double meaning of “playing dead.”

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Anna Fenemore
Chapter 1—(Beginnings) Playing Dead: Rehearsals for Dying
Anna Fenemore
Playtext 1—The Rehearsal (a trilogy), Part 1: Death Rattle
Chapter 2—I’m Dead, You’re Dead: Imagining and Rehearsing (For) The End
Allan Kellehear
Playtext 2—The Rehearsal (a trilogy), Part 2: Clinging On
Chapter 3—The Performance of Death: A Sociological Perspective
Carol Komaromy
Playtext 3—The Rehearsal (a trilogy), Part 3: Happy Hour
Chapter 4—(Endings) Death Becomes Us
Alan Fair
The Rehearsal (a trilogy) based on interviews with . . .
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Anna Fenemore
Chapter 1—(Beginnings) Playing Dead: Rehearsals for Dying
Anna Fenemore
Playtext 1—The Rehearsal (a trilogy), Part 1: Death Rattle
Chapter 2—I’m Dead, You’re Dead: Imagining and Rehearsing (For) The End
Allan Kellehear
Playtext 2—The Rehearsal (a trilogy), Part 2: Clinging On
Chapter 3—The Performance of Death: A Sociological Perspective
Carol Komaromy
Playtext 3—The Rehearsal (a trilogy), Part 3: Happy Hour
Chapter 4—(Endings) Death Becomes Us
Alan Fair
The Rehearsal (a trilogy) based on interviews with . . .
Bibliography
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