Introduction. Hedonism Is a Bunker -- pt. I. End of Effect -- 1. Incidents of Cutting and Chopping -- 2. End of the Story? -- 3. Academic Scriptwriters and Bodily Affects -- pt. II. Performance Affects -- 4. Performance Affects: A Kind of Triumph -- 5. Call of Beauty: An Affective Invitation -- 6. About Face: Disturbing the Fabric of the Sensible -- Conclusion: Let them slide.
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'Performance Affects' explores performance projects in disaster & war zones to argue that joy, beauty & celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based performance practice, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre away from effects towards an affective role, connected to sensations of pleasure.