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The (Im)Possibility of Empathy in SIGNA's Half the Suffering
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 64, Number 1, Spring 2020 (T245)
- pp. 155-167
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
Abstract:
SIGNA's performance installation Half the Suffering takes up the currently virulent debate on whether empathy is a panacea for society's woes. Inviting visitors to spend a night in a 12-hour empathy workshop, the performance critiques the history of theatre qua empathy machine, while questioning the altruistic impulse to share someone's pain.
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