Abstract:

This essay reviews Theatre Journal articles that examine the intersections of theatre and capital, to highlight the challenge of analyzing neoliberal transformations of global and glocal economies, in particular, the trend to financial speculation to the detriment of investment in public resources, and the impact on theatre and performance. Commentators in the “global” North can better understand the scale of transformation—the concentration of wealth for a few and the loss of public revenue for the precarious majority—by examining strategies deployed by this majority in the South, especially Africa, to deal with extreme inequality exacerbated since the 1990s by structural adjustment and reduced aid from the North. The essay briefly notes a critical response to the impact of capital on performance by an African scholar, and a performative illumination of its US impact by an American practitioner. In the first case, David Donkor’s Spiders of the Market analyzes the glocal pressure of financialization on social welfare and performative practices in Ghana while offering critical insights that apply to increasing inequality in the North. In the second, Paul Durica and Pocket Guide to Hell’s site-responsive reenactments illuminate historic conflicts between U.S. capital and labor from the 1886-7 Haymarket Trial to the 2011 Occupy Movement and attempt to clarify the obscure workings of capital as an economic and cultural force in contemporary Chicago, whose nineteenth-century markets were the first to develop derivatives and other instruments that have spawned financial speculation to the present time.

摘要：

本文回顾了《戏剧杂志》上探讨戏剧与资本交叉点的文章，强调分析全球和全球本土经济的新自由主义转型所面临的挑战，特别是损害公共资源投资的金融投机趋势，以及对公共资源投资的影响。戏剧和表演。“全球”北方的评论家可以通过研究南方（尤其是非洲）的大多数人为应对自 20 世纪 90 年代以来，结构调整和北方援助减少加剧了极端不平等。这篇文章简要地指出了一位非洲学者对资本对绩效影响的批判性回应，以及一位美国实践者对其美国影响的表演性阐释。在第一个案例中，大卫·唐克（David Donkor）的《市场蜘蛛》分析了金融化对加纳社会福利和表演实践的全球本地压力，同时提供了适用于北方日益加剧的不平等的重要见解。在第二部分中，保罗·杜里卡（Paul Durica）和《地狱袖珍指南》的现场重演揭示了从 1886 年 7 月的干草市场审判到 2011 年占领运动的美国资本和劳工之间的历史冲突，并试图澄清资本作为一种经济和文化力量的模糊运作方式。在当代的芝加哥，十九世纪的市场最先开发出衍生品和其他工具，这些工具至今仍催生了金融投机。