The Punk Turn in Comedy by Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone

Author:Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Alienation

‘Alienation’ as considered here includes the generation of distance, and not only the Brechtian and critical kind, though they are interwoven. The discouragement of ‘conventional types of identification’ (Laing 1985, p. 84), including aspiration and empathy, suggests a Brechtian dismantling of received modes of audience perception. 8 Ian Dury (in Morley 1979) commented, ‘If somebody’s looking at me with rapture all over their face I want to throw a bucket of water over them’. This was in some instances accompanied by the attempt to actually withdraw from the audience, particularly in post-punk—for example in Devoto’s detached performance, and on the part of Siouxsie (Steve Severin, Punk Years 2002):We’d sometimes do shows where we’d turn our backs to the audience. [Siouxsie had a reputation as the Ice Maiden] ’cos she wouldn’t talk in between songs. There was nothing to say. I don’t know you, you’re just a bunch of people who came to see the show. I’m not going to tell you a joke, we are not entertainers.

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