Abstract Based on considerations of the connection between fascination, crisis, and the “Medusa effect,” this paper argues that contemporary drama tends to challenge the audience’s sense of safe spectatorship by stimulating perceptual crises, returning the spectators’ gaze, and exposing their tendencies of (in)attentional blindness. Besides plays by Martin Crimp, Carol Ann Duffy, and Rufus Norris, the analysis focuses on James Graham’s Quiz (2017), which dramatizes one of the most popular scandals in the history of British game shows and challenges the audience’s capacity of moral attention. As I argue, Quiz engages the audience in multi-levelled crises (a crisis of knowledge, a crisis of perception, and a crisis of judgement), which stimulates conceptual blending, tests spectators’ response-ability on an ethical, aesthetic, and political level, and eventually allows them to overcome the perceptual crisis created in the course of the play.

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当代英国戏剧中对危机的迷恋和感知危机

摘要 基于对迷恋、危机和“美杜莎效应”之间联系的考虑，本文认为当代戏剧倾向于通过激发知觉危机、回归观众的视线、暴露观众的安全观来挑战观众的安全观感。 （在）注意失明。除了 Martin Crimp、Carol Ann Duffy 和 Rufus Norris 的扮演之外，分析重点是 James Graham's Quiz (2017)，它戏剧化了英国游戏节目历史上最流行的丑闻之一，并挑战了观众的道德关注能力。正如我所说，测验让观众参与到多层次的危机（知识危机、感知危机和判断危机）中，这刺激了概念融合，测试了观众对伦理、审美和政治的反应能力。等级，