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Theatres of Autofiction

Book cover © Cambridge University Press

Book cover © Cambridge University Press

Lianna Mark – 2024

This Element is the first monograph to focus on the presence and popularity of autofiction in contemporary theatre, a mode characterised by its mixture of autobiographical and fictional materials and generally associated with the cutting edge of literary fiction. To do so, it brings frameworks from literary and theatre studies to bear on a recent upsurge in plays that explicitly mobilise lived experience and its fictionalisation to political ends. Considering a comparative corpus of state-subsidised productions in Britain and Europe since the mid 2010s – both adaptations of literary works and plays written for the stage – this Element attends to autofiction's aesthetics and politics through its negotiation on stage of three conceptual binaries, each the focus of a section: fact/fiction, self/other, and inclusion/exclusion. By probing the mode's critical potential and pitfalls, it sheds light on the stakes of self-fictionalising practices in today's cultural markets and on the role of theatre therein.

Title
Theatres of Autofiction
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Location
Cambridge
Keywords
Monograph; RA4: Literary Currencies
Date
2024
Appeared in
Cambridge Elements: Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political [Publication Series]
Type
Text
Coverage
This publication is the result of work carried out in Research Area 4: Literary Currencies.

How to cite:
Lianna Mark. Theatres of Autofiction. Cambridge Elements: Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2024. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009406970.