OK, here I am in the revision phase of my dissertation and I’ve ground to a squeaky halt. So here goes—blog, save me from brain death! In trying to revise a chapter (“The Rules of Appearance”) I’m linking the work of American Playwright W. David Hancock with Forced Entertainment and also with Tadeusz Kantor. All of these “post-dramatic” artists refer me back to the verbatim theatre which like a dark star pulls on these aesthetically incompatible theatres through its shared fascination with the actor-as-object, with staging real things, with objects that testify to their own presence. (more…)