Vanishing Acts: Sarah Kane’s Texts for Performance and Postdramatic Theatre
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT: Written as texts for performance, Sarah Kane’s Crave and 4.48 Psychosis challenge the traditional dichotomy between dramatic literature and performance and reveal that the concept of presence often determines the authority that is invested either in performance or in text whenever the two are opposed. If we take Hans-Thies Lehmann’s elucidation of the “performance text” seriously, Kane’s notion of a text for performance provides the opportunity to rethink the text from within a postdramatic context, naming how complex aesthetic variables (including, but not limited to, printed content) interact to create a theatrical work. Yet, while performance influenced Kane’s effort to make theatre, her last two works question more traditional conceptualizations of performance as a present event that may refer to life itself. Kane, therefore, offers an opportunity to rethink performance postdramatically, whereby performance may be defined as the assemblage of a text that gives time and space to present life’s deferral.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it