Babbage, F.H. (2018) Staging Angela Carter. In: Poore, B., Jones, K. and Dean, R., (eds.) Contemporary Gothic Drama: Attraction, Consummation and Consumption on the Modern British Stage. Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978-1-349-95358-5
Abstract
Babbage considers the challenges of staging Angela Carter’s ‘The Bloody Chamber’ and ‘The Company of Wolves’. Discussing several contemporary productions, Babbage shows that while Carter’s Gothic iconography has been effectively represented, theatre adaptations have struggled to sustain the fluidity of position that is equally important in her work. Referencing examples from 18th and 19th century drama, and the insistence of Burke and Radcliffe that terror requires obscurity and ‘boundlessness’, Babbage examines treatments of Carter in non-theatre sites. Grid Iron’s The Bloody Chamber, a promenade production in Edinburgh catacombs, and Burn the Curtain’s The Company of Wolves, a night-time performance in woodland, exploit the potential of space, proximity and obscurity; both adaptations thereby structure a relationship to Carter’s writing that is exciting, unsettling and potentially liberating.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 The Editors and The Author. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 15 Nov 2016 10:37 |
Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2018 14:47 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95359-2 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1057/978-1-349-95359-2 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:106982 |