Notes for the Traveller: An introduction to the Journey Ahead 1. Landscapes of Aftermath 2. Performing Museums and Memorial Bodies: Theatre in the Shadows of the Crematoria 3. Vietnam: 'Not the Bullshit Story in the Lonely Planet' 4. Here was the place: (Re)Performing Khmer Rouge Archive of Violence 5. Lost in our own Land: Reenacting colonial Violence 6. The World Watched: Witnessing Genocide Phantom Speak Works Cited
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Emma Willis is an academic and artist based in Aotearoa New Zealand where she teaches Drama at the University of Auckland. In addition to publishing performance criticism, she works as a writer, director and dramaturge in theatre, dance and radio.
"Emma Willis's worthy project, Theatricality, Dark Tourism and Ethical Spectatorship, places works for the theatre in dialogue with place-based memorials. Willis offers us practice-centered analysis for diverse objects of study. Following Willis as she takes on the challenges of these ethical/aesthetic encounters, readers will appreciate the book's ethorough research, sound argumentation, and elegant prose. An ambitious project effectively realized, this is insightful scholarship about a timely subject." - Laurie Beth Clark, University of Wisconsin, USA
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