“Everywhere is Warmer than the house”: ‘Traumaculture’ in Laura Wade’s Colder Than Here

Işıl ŞAHİN GÜLTER

doi:https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.1007356

Makale detayları

“Everywhere is Warmer than the house”: ‘Traumaculture’ in Laura Wade’s Colder Than Here

Yazarlar:

Işıl ŞAHİN GÜLTER

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Aşama sunumları

Dergi:

Journal of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy 2021 Issue 33, pp.61-76

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000804367

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2687-4636

pISSN:

1303-8605

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.1007356

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Özet:

 


Contemporary British theatre is a crucial avenue for staging trauma as theatre provides both the potential of emotional identification and critical perspective. By making use of the unique possibilities of embodied performance, theatre allows for a safe space in which traumatic suffering can be reconfigured. Drawing on the notion of Roger Luckhurst’s ‘traumaculture,’  this paper interrogates the extent to which contemporary British playwright Laura Wade’s one-act play, Colder Than Here (2005), situates current traumatic experiences within social and cultural contexts. This paper deals with terminal disease increases, familial dysfunction, and ecological degradation as traumatic experiences that permeate daily existence. Therefore, by bringing into the spotlight the contemporary definition of trauma and traumaculture, this paper aims at exploring how Colder Than Herereflects multifaceted engagements with traumatic cultural experiences onstage with a focus on a middle-class English family.

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Contemporary British theatre is a crucial avenue for staging trauma as theatre provides both the potential of emotional identification and critical perspective. By making use of the unique possibilities of embodied performance, theatre allows for a safe space in which traumatic suffering can be reconfigured. Drawing on the notion of Roger Luckhurst’s ‘traumaculture,’  this paper interrogates the extent to which contemporary British playwright Laura Wade’s one-act play, Colder Than Here (2005), situates current traumatic experiences within social and cultural contexts. This paper deals with terminal disease increases, familial dysfunction, and ecological degradation as traumatic experiences that permeate daily existence. Therefore, by bringing into the spotlight the contemporary definition of trauma and traumaculture, this paper aims at exploring how Colder Than Herereflects multifaceted engagements with traumatic cultural experiences onstage with a focus on a middle-class English family.

Makale detayları

“Everywhere is Warmer than the house”: ‘Traumaculture’ in Laura Wade’s Colder Than Here

Yazarlar:

Işıl ŞAHİN GÜLTER

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Aşama sunumları

Dergi:

Journal of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy 2021 Issue 33, pp.61-76

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000804367

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2687-4636

pISSN:

1303-8605

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.1007356

Trauma

Traumaculture

Trauma theory

Colder Than Here

Laura Wade

Sayı

Makale detayları

“Everywhere is Warmer than the house”: ‘Traumaculture’ in Laura Wade’s Colder Than Here

Yazarlar: Işıl ŞAHİN GÜLTER

Yayıncı: Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar: Aşama sunumları

Dergi: Journal of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy 2021 Issue 33, pp.61-76

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2021

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000804367

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 2687-4636

pISSN: 1303-8605

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.1007356

Trauma

Traumaculture

Trauma theory

Colder Than Here

Laura Wade

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Işıl ŞAHİN GÜLTER

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Aşama sunumları

Dergi:

Journal of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy 2021 Issue 33, pp.61-76

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000804367

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2687-4636

pISSN:

1303-8605

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.1007356