Star Ark by Rachel Armstrong

Author:Rachel Armstrong
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

10.3 Scenographies and space: reading the gendered tyranny of the “Blue Ball”

Esther M. Armstrong, Program Director for Theatre and Screen at Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts, London

See Fig. 10.1.

Figure 10.1From Paul Godfrey’s play, The Blue Ball, which opened at the National Theatre in 1995, that asked why mankind’s forays into space had been “rendered mundane in such a short time?” Credit: Mark Douet: The Blue Ball by Peter Godfrey/ArenaPAL

“From a quarter of a million miles away

our fragile earth is the only coloured thing,

the moon is grey or biscuit brown

and space is black.” (Godfrey 1995, p. 56)

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