Book Review: Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres by Fintan Walsh

Bissell reviews Fintan Walsh’s Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres exploring the desire to make contact with others, and the importance of physical proximity at a time when it was impossible due to the global health crisis. Throughout this book, Walsh explores how theatre responded to death and loss as ‘an aesthetic practice capable of representing, containing, and supporting grief’ (9) and argues that theatre was, and is, vital to rituals and enactments of pandemic grief.