The Play of Law: Comparing Performance in Law and Theatre

  • Nicole Rogers

Abstract

I am undertaking an investigation into the interrelationship between law and theatre. I shall explore the interrelationship between law and theatre by considering case studies in which legal performances have been re-presented or reproduced as theatre. Such case studies demonstrate that there are certain undeniable similarities between law and theatre. In both disciplines, performance and thus play, albeit very different forms of play, are central. Yet there are fundamental differences between legal and theatrical performances. I shall examine these differences, arriving, finally, at violence: legal performances are anchored in violence and theatrical performances are not.
Published
Dec 1, 2008
How to Cite
ROGERS, Nicole. The Play of Law: Comparing Performance in Law and Theatre. QUT Law Review, [S.l.], v. 8, n. 2, dec. 2008. ISSN 2201-7275. Available at: <https://lr.law.qut.edu.au/article/view/52>. Date accessed: 01 feb. 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.5204/qutlr.v8i2.52.
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