Theory for Theatre Studies: Sound

Theatres in ancient Greece and Aristotle’s poetics — The vocal map of ancient Greek drama — Case study : Aristophanes’s The frogs — Vitruvius on acoustics : de architectura — Shakespeare’s Globe and Francis Bacon’s Sylva sylvarum — Acoustic world-making on the early modern stage — Case study : Shakespeare’s The tempest — A sonic imagination of early modern London — New technologies for sound performance — Case study : Luigi Russolo’s Intonamuri and “the art of noise” — Hanging on the telephone : Sigmund Freud and Roland Barthes — Case study : Jean Cocteau’s The human voice — The sounds of silence : John Cage’s Future of music — Acousmatics and radiophonics : Pierre Schaffer and the BBC — Aura and archive : making sound memories — Case study : Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s last tape — Prosthetic performance and deterritorialised listening — Case study : Janet Cardiff’s Sound walks — Listening to women : Andrea Hornick and Luce Irigaray — Affective theatres of embodied sound — Case study : Shannon Yee’s “Reassembled slightly askew” — Case study : Rimini Protokoll’s Situation rooms — Coda : sound across the world.