@article{ref1,
title="It didn't happen like this: Suicide, voice and witnessing in Dead Centre's Lippy",
journal="Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies",
year="2019",
author="Venn, J.",
volume="4",
number="1",
pages="21-36",
abstract="This article addresses the use of voice in the theatrical representation of suicide in Dead Centre's Lippy, a play that engages with the real-life group suicide of a family of four Irish women in 2001. Following a discussion of how to negotiate the political and ethical components of the suicide and the play, the article suggests witnessing as a fruitful conceptual framework. However, it establishes the need to develop the conceptualization of witnessing from existing scholarship in two core modes. First, it denotes that rather than simply a particular mode of language or sight, witnessing can take place through voice; it explores how Lippy uses voice to delineate and ques-tion structures of power in the representation of the Mulrooneys' suicide. Second, instead of conceiving witnessing as simply a radicalization of the audience's spec-tatorship, or situating the audience as either as testifier, witness or meta-witness, witnessing is a process in performance that concomitantly involves all three of these positions. © 2019 Intellect Ltd Article. English language.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2057-0341",
doi="10.1386/JIVS.4.1.21_1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/JIVS.4.1.21_1"
}