Lobel, Brian (2019) Theatre & Cancer. Red Globe Press, Macmillan Education, London. ISBN 9781352006469

Abstract

This book confronts the difficult relationship between theatre and cancer. It explores representations of cancer in fictional worlds and autobiographical performances while also highlighting work that reimagines and reinvigorates the genre of ‘Cancer Performance’. Challenging conventional narratives which rely on the binary of tragedy versus survival, Brian Lobel argues for an alternative approach to understanding cancer in relation to theatre.