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    Picking up the bill: unravelling the truth and paying for the damage incurred
    (2018)
    This Performance as Research attempts to address the difficulties of having a constructive conversation around race and colonialism in the public square with a theatrical work. The research is creative and artistic in nature. Storytelling, ritual and ceremony are the primary performative devices used in the work. The researchers embarked on a process of writing and performing stories of mythical, symbolic and personal relevance, with the aim of investigating the effect upon themselves as researchers. Drawing from a range of mythologies, stories may evoke empathy and understanding in the listener, vital elements when entering conversation about emotionally charged topics. The aim, therefore is to propose a creative solution to the conversation – telling out stories through theatre may give them fuller expression and invite the listener to hear them with open ears, to have compassion, and to perhaps to reach for a place of greater understanding. The research consists of a performance, theorising around the principles that informed it, and reflection upon the performance once it had been staged. The findings take the form of questions around our willingness to share ourselves with others, the fear that evokes, and possible routes forward in the conversation. These will be addressed in a final performative submission to be made at a later date after conversation with witnesses of the original performance.
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    Beyond the "linoleum colon": performance as research into the constructed narrative of the public hospital space
    (2017) Lee, Tarryn Elizabeth
    A theory of performance-making is presented through this study that contributes to the body of performance studies research. The consideration of looking “beyond” the “linoleum colon”, as the research title suggests, positions this study to respond to the research question: To what extent can a constructed performance narrative provide the potential for audience transformation in reading, knowing, and understanding the public health site as an ally to health care practice? The “performance-making process” is forwarded as a possible model for creative research. The collaborative process leading to the performance Beyond the linoleum colon is an experiment in performance-making. I frame this experiment as a “collision course” (Pollock, 2010: 203) that presents a convergence between performance studies, urban spatial praxis, and narrative theory. The performance-making process as a model presents a formula for a theory of performance-making. A performance-making theory can be derived from the ways in which a citing of site took place and will be presented as part of this study. I have connoted the action of ‘digestion’ from the metaphorical element of the ‘colon’, an incorporation of supportive theoretical ideas that develop into a model for a theory of performance-making. The research to follow is informed by writers in performance studies including Schechner (2002), Conquergood (1995, 2002a, 2002b), Pollock (2010), and Warren (2010), urban spatial praxis from the perspective of Lefebvre (1991), and narrative theory with reference to Braid (1996), Bruner (1986), and McArthy (2007). The implications of performance-making on the field of performance studies will be addressed, underscoring the importance of a performance-lens to the creative endeavour of the current study. Urban spatial praxis will be stressed, as a consideration of space within the performance was twofold: the citing of site in a theatrical space emerged, as well as a foregrounding of hospital site as a space for the culmination of experiential accounts that developed the Expressionist theatre work. A framing theory on space and the circumstances for its production will be emphasised, leading to an imperative to what I reinforce as narrative construction and narrative performance. The way in which the research has developed in response to these key theoretical perspectives informs the process, progress, and concluding findings of the performance experiment: Beyond the linoleum colon.