Theatre as Voyeurism: The Pleasures of Watching

Introduction: Staring at the Forbidden: Legitimising Voyeurism; George Rodosthenous PART I: VOYEURISM AND DIRECTING THE GAZE 1. Always Looking Back at the Voyeur: Jan Fabre's Extreme Acts on Stage; Laurens de Vos 2. The Dramaturgies of the Gaze: Strategies of Vision and Optical Revelations in the Theatre of Romeo Castellucci and the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio; Eleni Papalexiou PART II: VOYEURISM IN SPACE 3. Intimacy, Immersion and the Desire to Touch: The Voyeur Within; David Shearing 4. In Between the Visible and the Hidden: Modalities of Seeing in Site-specific Performance; William McEvoy PART III: VOYEURISM AND ACTS OF WATCHING 5. The Pleasure of Looking Behind Curtains: Naked Bodies from Titian to Fabre and LeRoy; Luk Van Den Dries 6. Baring All on Stage: Active Encounters with Voyeurism, Performance Aesthetics and 'Absorbed Acts of Seeing'; Fiona Bannon PART IV: VOYEURISM AND EXHIBITING THE BODY 7. Thinking critical/Looking Sexy: a naked white male body in performance; Daniël Ploeger 8. Viewing the Pornographic Theatre: Explicit Voyeurism, Artaud, and Ann Liv Young's Cinderella; Aaron C. Thomas PART V: VOYEURISM AND NAKED BODIES 9. 'Music for the eyes' in Hair: Tracing the history of the naked singing body on stage; Tim Stephenson 10. Outlying Islands as theatre of voyeurism: Ornithologists, naked bodies and the 'pleasure of peeping'; George Rodosthenous Index