Different kinds of doubling: Comparing some uses of character doubling in the ghosts trilogy, by Janis Balodis, and the captive, by Ben Ellis (original) (raw)

Australasian Drama Studies, 2012

Abstract

Character doubling has a contested provenance in theatre studies. On the one hand, it has been identified as a way to subvert naturalisation of socialised roles, foregrounding the performativity that scholars such as Judith Butler have identified as being inherent in everyday identity practices. When actors cross ethnic, class, gender, age or other boundaries to achieve doubled or multiple characterisation within a single performance, they can effectively expose and problematise those boundaries' constructedness. ...

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