The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000U of Minnesota Press, 1 jan 2002 - 347 pagina's Spanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross-reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau--his directing, writing, and criticism--has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory. |
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Pagina xi
... San Francisco, in 1957, when I staged Mother Courage in its first American production. By the time, a few years later, I did a somewhat revisionist staging of Galileo, I had already, drawn to Beckett astride ofa grave, been equivocating ...
... San Francisco, in 1957, when I staged Mother Courage in its first American production. By the time, a few years later, I did a somewhat revisionist staging of Galileo, I had already, drawn to Beckett astride ofa grave, been equivocating ...
Pagina xiii
... San Francisco Forty-Niners made himself eligible for the Hall of Fame by winning three Super Bowls. He and the other coaches were particularly caught up by a sequence in my talk—the only one about performance as we know it from the ...
... San Francisco Forty-Niners made himself eligible for the Hall of Fame by winning three Super Bowls. He and the other coaches were particularly caught up by a sequence in my talk—the only one about performance as we know it from the ...
Pagina xv
... San Francisco (and the book I wrote about it). To the question, asked in the eighties, “What's new in the American theater?” the answer was—considering the expectancies that came out of the sixties—not all that much, though the essay ...
... San Francisco (and the book I wrote about it). To the question, asked in the eighties, “What's new in the American theater?” the answer was—considering the expectancies that came out of the sixties—not all that much, though the essay ...
Pagina xvi
... San Francisco, in a forum at the MLA (1987) celebrating the Renaissance, as a prelude to explaining—not exactly in a celebrative mood—how we struggled, for all the ferment, against a certain inertia or provincialism in that otherwise ...
... San Francisco, in a forum at the MLA (1987) celebrating the Renaissance, as a prelude to explaining—not exactly in a celebrative mood—how we struggled, for all the ferment, against a certain inertia or provincialism in that otherwise ...
Pagina xviii
... San Francisco when in what appeared to be a vacuum ( not only in San Francisco ) , I was trying to create a thea- ter with a political conscience . There was a period when I directed , one after the other , plays by Brecht , Sean O ...
... San Francisco when in what appeared to be a vacuum ( not only in San Francisco ) , I was trying to create a thea- ter with a political conscience . There was a period when I directed , one after the other , plays by Brecht , Sean O ...
Inhoudsopgave
Theater at the End of the Real | 1 |
2 The Impossible Takes a Little Time | 18 |
3 Spacing Out in the American Theater | 37 |
Rehearsing the Resistance | 53 |
5 A Dove in My Chimney | 62 |
An Analytic Scenario | 70 |
The Grail of the Voice | 118 |
Chills and Fever Mourning and the Vanities of the Sublime | 132 |
13 Readymade Desire | 199 |
From Tango Palace to Mud | 206 |
The Group Idea and Its Legacy | 215 |
New Music and Theater | 230 |
17 FlatOut Vision | 246 |
Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher | 265 |
Revising the Abyss | 281 |
The Insane Root | 307 |
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