Theatre as Voyeurism

1. Introduction: Staring at the Forbidden: Legitimizing Voyeurism
George Rodosthenous

Part I. Voyeurism and Directing the Gaze

2. Always Looking Back at the Voyeur: Jan Fabre’s Extreme Acts on Stage
Laurens Vos

3. The Dramaturgies of the Gaze: Strategies of Vision and Optical Revelations in the Theatre of Romeo Castellucci and Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
Eleni Papalexiou

Part II. Voyeurism in Space

4. Intimacy, Immersion and the Desire to Touch: The Voyeur Within
David Shearing

5. In Between the Visible and the Hidden: Modalities of Seeing in Site-Specific Performance
William McEvoy

Part III. Voyeurism and Acts of Watching

6. The Pleasure of Looking Behind Curtains: Naked Bodies from Titian to Fabre and LeRoy
Luk Dries

7. Baring All on Stage: Active Encounters with Voyeurism, Performance Aesthetics and ‘Absorbed Acts of Seeing’
Fiona Bannon

Part IV. Voyeurism and Exhibiting the Body

8. Thinking Critical/Looking Sexy: A Naked Male Body in Performance
Daniël Ploeger

9. Viewing the Pornographic Theatre: Explicit Voyeurism, Artaud and Ann Liv Young’s Cinderella
Aaron C. Thomas

Part V. Voyeurism and Naked Bodies

10. ‘Music for the Eyes’ in Hair: Tracing the History of the Naked Singing Body on Stage
Tim Stephenson

11. Outlying Islands as Theatre of Voyeurism: Ornithologists, Naked Bodies and the ‘Pleasure of Peeping’
George Rodosthenous

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Performing Arts, Theatre History, Theatre and Performance Studies, Arts