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Stripping and Getting Personal: Catharsis and Medical Performance by Alex Mermikides

This excerpt is taken from the concluding chapter of Performance, Medicine and the Human, a book on contemporary medical performance. The author examines one example of medical performance " A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer by Bryony Kimmings, Tom Parkinson and Brian Lobel " which playfully subverts the 'cathartic logic' of Aristotlean dramaturgy. A […] The full version of the article Stripping and Gettin…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:07PM on January 30, 2020

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