Performing Objects and Theatrical Things

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Object Lessons....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Technology and Wonder in Thirteenth-Century Iberia and Beyond....Pages 21-35
“Nothing but a string of beads”: Maud Allan’s Salomé Costume as a “choreographic thing”....Pages 36-48
Cartomania and the Scriptive Album: Cartes-de-Visite as Objects of Social Practice....Pages 49-62
The Linguistic Animation of an American Yorick....Pages 63-75
House Arrest: Museological Performance, Animacy, and the Remains of Rural America....Pages 76-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
The Unfolding Roles of a Walking Map within NVA’s Half Life....Pages 91-103
Military Memorialization and its Object(s) of Period Purification....Pages 104-117
Entided, Enwatered, Enwinded: Human/More-than-Human Agencies in Site-specific Performance....Pages 118-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
“All Transparent”: Pepper’s Ghost, Plate Glass, and Theatrical Transformation....Pages 135-148
Que(e)rying Theatrical Objects....Pages 149-160
Making the Invisible Visible: Virtual Stage Props and Christopher Marlowe’s Dr Faustus....Pages 161-172
Relic, Souvenir, or Just Hair?: Exploring the Complexities of Objects as Actants and Things as Mementos in the Merchandise of El Vez, The Mexican Elvis....Pages 173-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Props Breaking Character: The Performance and Failure of Real Objects on the Naturalist Stage....Pages 187-199
Bodied Objects: An Analysis of the Whip in George Aiken’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man....Pages 200-213
Translocalized Drums: Mobilizing the Intercultural in the Cantares Mexicanos....Pages 214-227
Back Matter....Pages 228-264