Performer’s Body: Cross-Gender Casting as an Estrangement Technique in Theatre

The main thesis of the present article is that cross-gender casting can function as a Brechtian estrangement technique, an approach which denaturalizes gender and other social constructs. The term “cross-gender casting” is preferred to the term “travesty”, which is mainly used by Serbian theatre cri...

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Main Author: Ognjen Obradović
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Belgrade 2020-11-01
Series:Etnoantropološki Problemi
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Online Access:https://www.eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/1081