#2 New book: Scenography Chapter in Women experimenting in theatre

So proud my chapter "Frying Bacon and Eggs: Scenographic Approaches to Alda Terracciano's Activist and Experimental Performances" has been published in Women experimenting in theatre: early modern to contemporary, edited by Kate Aughterson and Deborah Philips (Palgrave Macmillan 2024). 

The book 

• Brings together scholars across a wide range of historical and contemporary expertise
• Suggests a tradition of women dramatists and performers which is explicitly experimental and innovative
• Enables the reader to engage with debates about women and theatrical experience

In my chapter I apply scenography as a theoretical lens for analysing the experimental, feminist, and decolonial work of UK-based theatre scholar, activist, and artist Alda Terracciano. (...). My exploration will address Terracciano's provocative Bacon and Eggs intervention from the 2015 conference Challenge the Past—Diversify the Future, in which she employed the scenographic, multisensory tools of smell (frying bacon and eggs), video, and bodily action to target urgent colonial issues. I will also explore her project Mapping Memory Routes of Moroccan Communities (2016–2017) including the performative event and cross-genre installation Zelige Door on Golborne Road launched at Rich Mix in London in 2017, and then touring internationally. Overall, this chapter foregrounds scenography theory as a way of bringing out and making accessible the performative powers of current experimental, activist, and feminist art and theatre. In doing so, it offers an argument for how scenographic approaches can seed the evocative interplay between art and society in a world in need of hope, care, and constructive change. Link:

https://link.springer.com/.../10.1007/978-3-031-63689-9_16

Astrid von Rosen