Sickness. The sick body and spectatorship: thinking through endometriosis

Abstract

Working creatively with the extra theatrical and spectatorial dimension that characterises the author’s lived experience of endometriosis, this Short intersperses autobiographical performative glimpses of the illness with the author’s encounters at the crossroads of sickness and spectatorship through the lens of the body living with endometriosis. These encounters’ loci include the theatre, an operating theatre, the street, a pathology museum and her inner body during meditation. The Short finishes with a call for sick bodies to be seen and believed in and beyond the theatre, as this impacts the quality of treatment sick bodies will get in the future.