Abstract
In the summer of 2012, I directed a production of Anthony Neilson’s Normal (written and first performed in 1991) at Camden People’s Theatre in London. This chapter is a critical reflection on that production and its rehearsal process, attending to Jody Enders’ contention that in the ‘world of theatre … the virtual becomes actual in every performance’.1 It explicates the ways in which Žižek’s philosophical writings were useful in and pertinent to rehearsals, and examines moments in which the play in performance adhered to and/or corresponded with that philosophical work, and also how it pushed back against it in various ways. The analysis is focused around a number of thick-descriptive reflections on the creative process and on the public performances of the play that I attended.
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