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Reporting Performance Research
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 July 2009
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In his essay in Theatre Research International “Creating Objects and Events,” Robert K. Sarlós cries in some anguish, “But does a production that reaches for…historic reconstruction deserve no scholarly attention at all unless or until it is recorded in (or accompanied by) a bulky tome?” His despair is comprehensible: the prospect of generating mounds of print material after completing a production is fatiguing to contemplate and daunting to attempt (indeed, lost in my own files are discarded drafts of such reportage on Giraldi Cinthio's Orbecche, an early attempt at a “performance essay”). However, the answer must be, unequivocally and despite fatigue, affirmative.
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