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The Monto Cycle offered temporary fragments of memories as embodied encounters with past lives. While each performance invoked a different aspect of the past, it did so with an inescapable sense of the present, through which I came to know more about the potential agency of the spectator when it was mapped onto the ethics of citizenship. That awakening through what Scarry and Machon would call the ‘praesence’ of the performance, began for me as personal, but as the memories accumulated over time, over performances, and through articulating those memories in conversations about the performances, my interest in the Cycle intensified even more when I realized the performances’ political power to raise consciousness, and invite active debate and perhaps, ultimately, calls to action.
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Jesse Weaver, ‘Geography and Community: ANU Productions Four-Part Monto Cycle’, Irish Theatre Magazine, 21 September 2011. http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/Features/Current/Geography-and-community—Anu-Production-s-four-pa: (Accessed, 11.1.16.) (Weaver 2011)
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‘NOW-THEN-NOW: Witnessing Future History’. A conference inspired by the work of ANU Productions, presented in partnership with Create, 7 to 8 October 2014. http://www.create-ireland.ie/events-2014/now-then-now-witnessing-future-history
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Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, p. 72. (Connerton 2014)
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Josephine Machon, Immersive Theatres: Intimacy and Immediacy in Contemporary Performance. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave, 2013, p. 44. (Machon 2013)
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Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember, p. 44. (Connerton 2014)
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Singleton, B. (2016). Conclusion. In: ANU Productions. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95133-8_6
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