Year of Wonders

Mike Alfreds, Jane Arnfield

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    Abstract

    Using performance to prompt new cultural practice/energy around recent trauma Humanitarian responses - how might we be able to build new knowledge from this by bringing it into dialogue with contemporary takes of plague - e.g. Madagascar - or even situations like Ebola, and in Sierra Leone - self quarantining

    The potential that the novel offers are to explore how pandemic threats are managed and conceived particularly relevant to the Ebola crisis. There are many directions that the project could follow and great potential for cross disciplinary arts/science research themes to be explored in the research:
    Health
    Superstition
    Documentary
    Women finding their voice
    Cultures which limit women
    Facing change
    Ignorance reason knowledge
    Learning to change
    Stoicism
    Good story
    Against Dogma
    Women constantly having to adjust themselves to cultures where men don't have to
    Arnfield’s work is situated in Theatre of the Real focusing on the politics of memory and biographical narrative methodologies such as:
    Remembering hindsight
    Reliving
    Factual Objective
    Finding it so painful trying to avoid telling
    Trying to be accurate, to recapture
    Emotion of now present and if remembering
    Biographical interviews top story
    Original languageEnglish
    TypePractice- as research project that will create a performance based on a novel, Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. The novel is set in a Derbyshire village during the Great Plague in 1666.
    Media of outputPerformance
    Publication statusPublished - Jun 2018

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