{"product_id":"9781350283169","title":"Sarah Kane's Theatre of Psychic Life : Theatre, Thought and Mental Suffering (Methuen Drama Engage)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first book to focus exclusively on playwright Sarah Kane's approach to mind and mental health; it brings together archival material, healthcare contexts and contemporary performances. As such, it offers an important re-evaluation of Kane's oeuvre, revealing the relationship between theatre and mind, which lies at the heart of her theatrical project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on performance theory, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, this book argues that Kane's innovations generated a 'dramaturgy of psychic life', which re-shape the encounter between stage and audience. It uses previously unseen archival material and contemporary productions to uncover the mechanics of this innovative theatre practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a radically open-ended approach to dramaturgy, Kane's works offer urgent insights into mental suffering that take us beyond traditional discourses of empathy and 'mental health' and into a profound rethinking of theatre as a mode of thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt makes a case for the relevance of Kane's work to understandings of contemporary diagnostic categories and places it in urgent debates about mental health in the medical humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48964814045419,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":74.98,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781350283169-1.jpg?v=1783098388","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781350283169","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}