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Monday, February 03, 2020
Stripping and Getting Personal: Catharsis and Medical Performance
The Theatre Times: This excerpt is taken from the concluding chapter of Performance, Medicine and the Human, a book on contemporary medical performance. The author examines one example of medical performance – A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer by Bryony Kimmings, Tom Parkinson and Brian Lobel – which playfully subverts the ‘cathartic logic’ of Aristotlean dramaturgy.
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