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All that Remains is True and Between Writing and Performance
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This submission comprises the original novel, All that Remains is True together with a
critical supplement, Between Writing and Performance, which provides a critical context
for the development of the novel from my earlier theatre work, and in particular the
theatre text Beulah Land. The novel is a first person narrative. It describes a journey, both
real and imaginary, made by two girls Vera and Eva Hopkins, in 1914 and 1915, from
India to Cambridgeshire, and the events they encounter in the Black House.
The critical supplement considers the relationship between writing for theatre and fiction,
in terms of my own work and in relation to the work of other writers. Chapter 1 argues
for creative research as a critical method and proposes an autographic method as a
principle of creative research.
Chapter 2 situates my own writing autography within the context of performance theatre
and suggests that this field, often seen as extra literary or anti text has, been a significant
and overlooked site of textual experiment.
Chapter 3 explores the relationships of authorship, subjectivity space and location in
theatre and fiction.
Chapter 4 Discusses my later post-performance theatre writing as a response to the issues
of authorship and textuality generated within the context of performance theatre. I then
tum to a discussion of borderland and slipstream fiction as places where similar concerns
are enacted. I conclude on the threshold of the novel All that Remains is True, which
opens up from this writerly enquiry.
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