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DESCRIPTION:The TAPS Graduate Students host Dr. W. B. Worthen for the March
  First Friday in Roble Gym 137. \n\nABOUT THE LECTURE\n\nAlthough theater i
 s conventionally seen as an essentially human or humanizing art form\, acti
 ng represents the human as richly technologized: whether using masks and ko
 thurnoi\, the teapot stance\, or the Zoom camera\, acting is suspended in t
 he apparatus of theater. How is this recognition framed in contemporary per
 formance? In Jordan Harrison’s plays\, actors play “inorganics” with the sl
 ightest nuance of difference (“Organic\, inorganic\,” says a character in T
 he Antiquities\, “A false dichotomy\, meant to give you comfort.”)\; for Th
 e Wooster Group or in the recent Picture of Dorian Gray\, “live” acting is 
 inseparable from digital mediation\; in Prometheus Firebringer\, Annie Dors
 en’s impassioned critique of LLM is phrased as a kind of artisanal intellig
 ence\, individual expression as digital citation. How does acting explore t
 he interface of the technologized human\, and\, in challenging the happily 
 captive fantasies of the theater’s originary human essence\, how does this 
 kind of work also engage a critique of theater as what Leif Weatherby has c
 alled “remainder humanism?” \n\n \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\n\nDr. W. B. Worthen
  is Professor of Theatre at Barnard College\, and Professor of English and 
 Comparative Literature at Columbia University\, where he also co-chairs the
  Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance. Worthen has often written from the inter
 section of dramatic writing\, theoretical inquiry\, and the materiality of 
 performance: among many articles\, books\, and edited collections\, his mos
 t recent books include Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama (2010)\, Drama
 : Between Poetry and Performance (2010)\, Shakespeare Performance Studies (
 2014)\, Shakespeare\, Technicity\, Theatre (2020)\, and last month\, Theatr
 e as Technology: Apparatus\, Nostalgia\, Obsolescence. (2026). He is workin
 g now on acting as technology.
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SUMMARY:FIRST FRIDAY | The Actor’s Tech
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URL:https://events.stanford.edu/event/march-first-friday-2026
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