Refugee Theater and Its Transgressions: Acts of Suspension in Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s The Jungle
Following a summary account of the principal challenges faced by theatrical representations of the immigrant’s plight, this article provides a close-reading analysis of Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s play The Jungle and its attempts to recreate a restaurant that existed in the refugee and migrant ca...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2022-01-01
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| Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/12495 |
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| Summary: | Following a summary account of the principal challenges faced by theatrical representations of the immigrant’s plight, this article provides a close-reading analysis of Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s play The Jungle and its attempts to recreate a restaurant that existed in the refugee and migrant camp in Calais by the same name. It questions how theatrical representation can rise to the task of self-disavowal while retaining its urgency. By focusing on the myriad obstacles to be overcome both in the use of theatre within refugee workshop settings and upon major-venue stages, this approach highlights theater’s extraordinary double-bind in these contexts, offering a reading of The Jungle that foregrounds theater’s transgressive capacity to stage its own renunciation, thus freeing representation from many of its self-inflicted limitations. |
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| ISSN: | 1272-3819 1969-6302 |