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The invisible theatre of radio drama
Author(s) -
Stanton William
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
critical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1467-8705
pISSN - 0011-1562
DOI - 10.1111/j.0011-1562.2004.00599.x
Subject(s) - drama , unconscious mind , field (mathematics) , art , psychoanalysis , aesthetics , literature , psychology , mathematics , pure mathematics
A radio play is a transitory and invisible performance that may take place, as Martin Esslin has suggested, 'in a field of internal vision' ('The Mind as a Stage', Theatre Quarterly, 1:3, 1971, 7). I am interested both in theory and, as a writer of radio drama, in the nature of this vision and its relations to dreams and the unconscious; which brings us pretty rapidly to Freud and issues raised by some poststructural reworkings of his thought. This leads me to some questions about the adequacy of such theory.