The SEA path

Collage & Curation

This chapter explores how Wayfinder is assembled as a curated experience, rather than a traditional linear script. It investigates the performative act of arrangement, where actors piece together the fragmented materials to create their own version of the play. The chapter also considers how theatre-as-archive challenges traditional authorship, as performance is an act of constant recomposition.

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Footnotes & References

  • Core Theoretical Foundations:

    1. Diana Taylor – The Archive and the Repertoire (2003) – Performance as an ephemeral yet archival practice.

    2. Peggy Phelan – Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (1993) – The impermanence of live performance as resistant to documentation.

    3. Jacques Derrida – Archive Fever (1995) – The instability of archives and their reliance on subjective interpretation.

  • Critical Debates and Counterarguments:

    1. Richard Schechner – Between Theatre and Anthropology (1985) – Suggests that theatre should be a structured ritual rather than a fluid, interpretative space.

    2. Augusto Boal – Theatre of the Oppressed (1979) – Emphasizes the political role of theatre over experimental form.

    3. Bertolt Brecht – Brecht on Theatre (1964) – Argues that clear, didactic messages are lost in excessive formal experimentation.

  • Empirical Studies & Case Studies:

    1. Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More (2011) – Audiences construct their own experience through immersive storytelling.

    2. The Wooster Group – Performance as collage, remixing texts and media.

    3. Forced Entertainment’s Complete Works: Tabletop Shakespeare – Reconfiguring Shakespearean texts using everyday objects.