Abstract
Building from the authors’ own experiment, the conception and creation of Watchlist (Vickery-Howe, 2020), this article interrogates metatheatricality in contemporary theatrical works: How Not To Make It In America (Steel, 2021) and Destroyer of Worlds (Lewis, 2015) and recent television series: Kidding (Holstein, 2018–2020), Landscapers (Sinclair, 2021) and Wakefield (Dunphy, 2021-). It will argue that these works represent a significant movement into alternative, meta-dramaturgies wherein the characters portrayed, and the worlds they inhabit, exist behind a porous and fragile fourth wall, through which they may wink at their audience–not so much stories within stories, but stories reflecting stories.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 271-290 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Text and Performance Quarterly |
Volume | 44 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 16 Oct 2023 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2024 |
Keywords
- Metatheatricality theatre television formalism Watchlist
- formalism
- Metatheatricality
- television
- theater
- Watchlist