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Staging food: An autoethnographic approach to understanding food in theatre and performance

McMahon, Jp
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2022-06-28
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Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies, English and Creative Arts, Drama Theatre and Performance, Staging food, autoethnographic approach, Food, Theatre, Performance
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This Practice-as-Research (PaR) thesis examines the staging of food through postdramatic playwriting. Using an autoethnographic methodology, it investigates how this staging affects those involved in the production (from the actors to the audience and production crew) and how food makes meaning on stage. Furthermore, it examines the conflicts that arise when food is presented on stage and how this differs from its presentation in a restaurant or as performance art. This thesis, which draws on my professional capacity as a theatre practitioner, chef, and food writer probes food through these avenues to present a possible new ecology of the theatricality of food wherein food’s ontology is seen as performatively linked to its specific space of representation.
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NUI Galway
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