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Procedurally Authored Performances of Mindful Practice
Theatre-for-One, Audience Labor, and Self-Optimization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 June 2022
Abstract
Relaxation, when produced by participating in a theatre-for-one piece, requires work. From March to May 2020, with much of the world under a stay-at-home advisory to mitigate the spread of Covid-19, three performances carved out restorative spaces. These theatre-for-one pieces give participants rules to follow to ostensibly resist the neoliberal drive to productivity; yet those same rules structure acts of rest as productive under neoliberalism.
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