Getting Caught: A Collaboration On- and Offstage between Theatre and Anthropology

Giordano, Cristiana; Pierotti, Greg

doi:10.1162/dram_a_00897

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Getting Caught: A Collaboration On- and Offstage between Theatre and Anthropology

Cristiana Giordano,

Cristiana Giordano

Cristiana Giordano is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her book, Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy (2014), won the Victor Turner Book Prize for ethnographic writing (2016) and the Boyer Prize in Psychoanalytic Anthropology (2017). Her current research investigates new ways of rendering ethnographic material into artistic forms. [email protected]

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Greg Pierotti

Greg Pierotti is Assistant Professor in Experimental Dramaturgy at the University of Arizona. He coauthored The Laramie Project (2000), Laramie: 10 Years Later (2008), and The People's Temple (2004), which have garnered Humanitas, Bay Area Theatre Critics awards, and an Emmy nomination. He coauthored Moment Work (2018) with members of Tectonic Theater Project. His research investigates dramaturgical practices that deal with problems of narrative and truth claims in theatre of the real. [email protected]

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Cristiana Giordano

Cristiana Giordano is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her book, Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy (2014), won the Victor Turner Book Prize for ethnographic writing (2016) and the Boyer Prize in Psychoanalytic Anthropology (2017). Her current research investigates new ways of rendering ethnographic material into artistic forms. [email protected]

Greg Pierotti

Greg Pierotti is Assistant Professor in Experimental Dramaturgy at the University of Arizona. He coauthored The Laramie Project (2000), Laramie: 10 Years Later (2008), and The People's Temple (2004), which have garnered Humanitas, Bay Area Theatre Critics awards, and an Emmy nomination. He coauthored Moment Work (2018) with members of Tectonic Theater Project. His research investigates dramaturgical practices that deal with problems of narrative and truth claims in theatre of the real. [email protected]

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2020

New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TDR/The Drama Review (2020) 64 (1 (245)): 88–106.

https://doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00897

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How does an ethnographer remain affected by worlds encountered after leaving the field of research? How does a theatrical deviser build theatrical worlds from empirical research that convey affective experience rather than just dramaturgically sound documentary-style narrative? Affect Theatre is a thinking and acting space for exploring these questions.

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