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  • 9 - Devised Theatre and the Performance of Science

  • Edited by Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science
    Published online:
    20 January 2021
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020, pp 131-145

  • Summary

    Chapter 9: This chapter begins by noting that as science has become more interdisciplinary and recognized as a form of contingent knowledge circulated across cultural fields, devising has emerged as a suitable method for creating performances with scientific content and themes. By virtue of its multivocality (involving a number of authors), its multimodal forms of storytelling and address (through language, dance, physicalization, digital media, installation and site-specific environments, and the like), and its presentational modes, devised performance can often render scientific ideas performative, capturing not just what they ‘are’ but what they ‘do’ and how they disseminate in the public understanding. Across scientific fields that are increasingly interrelated, devised performance provides new ways to move beyond merely conveying scientific ideas, choosing instead to invite spectators actively to map domains of knowledge and construct ideas that are constantly in transit.