The visual as an event: spect-acting gender in Out of a Doll’s House

Abstract Theatre is an image producer that is embedded with cultural practices of looking and critically involved in modes of looking. This case study offers an analysis of Out of a Doll’s House, a post-dramatic feminist performance. It demonstrates the manner in which visual dramaturgy exposes spectators to the process of performing an image as an action, and to the mechanism of constructing a theatrical image as a reflexive event. The analysis explores how visual post-dramatic dramaturgy allows participants to observe and experiment with gender as performance and with the visual as an event.