{"product_id":"the-memory-marketplace-witnessing-pain-in-contemporary-irish-and-international-theatre-hardback-9780253049506","title":"The Memory Marketplace; Witnessing Pain in Contemporary Irish and International Theatre (Hardback) 9780253049506","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Memory Marketplace\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWitnessing Pain in Contemporary Irish and International Theatre\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEmilie Pine (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253049506\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 June 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e262 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.558 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when cultural memory becomes a commodity? Who owns the memory? In \u003ci\u003eThe Memory Marketplace\u003c\/i\u003e, Emilie Pine explores how memory is performed both in Ireland and abroad by considering the significant body of contemporary Irish theatre that contends with its own culture and history. Analyzing examples from this realm of theatre, Pine focuses on the idea of witnesses, both as performers on stage and as members of the audience. Whose memories are observed in these transactions, and how and why do performances prioritize some memories over others? What does it mean to create, rehearse, perform, and purchase the theatricalization of memory? \u003ci\u003eThe Memory Marketplace\u003c\/i\u003e shows this transaction to be particularly fraught in the theatricalization of traumatic moments of cultural upheaval, such as the child sexual abuse scandal in Ireland. In these performances, the role of empathy becomes key within the marketplace dynamic, and Pine argues that this empathy shapes the kinds of witnesses created. The complexities and nuances of this exchange—subject and witness, spectator and performer, consumer and commodified—provide a deeper understanding of the crucial role theatre plays in shaping public understanding of trauma, memory, and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Market for Pain\u003cbr\u003e1. Tell them that you saw us: Witnessing Docu-Verbatim Memory\u003cbr\u003e2. The Witness as Commodity: Autoperforming Memory\u003cbr\u003e3. The Commissioned Witness, Theatre and Truth\u003cbr\u003e4. The immaterial labour of listening: Presence, absence, failure and the commodification of the witness\u003cbr\u003e5. Consumers or witnesses?: site-specific performance\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Activism in the Marketplace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525311688984,"sku":"9780253049506","price":55.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-memory-marketplace-witnessing-pain-in-contemporary-irish-and-international-theatre-hardback-9780253049506","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}