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. |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 37
Pagina x
... critique, that the system of representation on which the tradition depends had not only been de- mystified, first by Brecht, then deconstruction, but was in a state of vir- tual collapse. One has only to look, however, at the plaintive ...
... critique, that the system of representation on which the tradition depends had not only been de- mystified, first by Brecht, then deconstruction, but was in a state of vir- tual collapse. One has only to look, however, at the plaintive ...
Pagina xx
... critique. If I avoided, for the most part, writing about American drama, there are belated essays here on O'Neill and Williams (I have written about Miller elsewhere), and another recently on Maria Irene Fornes, who was also utterly ...
... critique. If I avoided, for the most part, writing about American drama, there are belated essays here on O'Neill and Williams (I have written about Miller elsewhere), and another recently on Maria Irene Fornes, who was also utterly ...
Pagina 6
... critique, particularly in the ideological assault on the paradoxes and ten- sions of modernist form, which, for all its antidrama, Godot still master- fully represents, along with the elegiac remnants of a “disempowering” nostalgia ...
... critique, particularly in the ideological assault on the paradoxes and ten- sions of modernist form, which, for all its antidrama, Godot still master- fully represents, along with the elegiac remnants of a “disempowering” nostalgia ...
Pagina 9
... critique of the festival of Dionysus, the theater's foremost il- lusion. Why did we pursue it? Because it was impossible. This paradox might be further defined around the concept of the au- dience, which is not so much, for me, what ...
... critique of the festival of Dionysus, the theater's foremost il- lusion. Why did we pursue it? Because it was impossible. This paradox might be further defined around the concept of the au- dience, which is not so much, for me, what ...
Pagina 11
... critique, dreaming on subversion or transgression if not a Big Bang. To attempt the impossible, I always thought, could be more or less realis- tic, but there seems to me in much academic discourse—whose political desires I mostly share ...
... critique, dreaming on subversion or transgression if not a Big Bang. To attempt the impossible, I always thought, could be more or less realis- tic, but there seems to me in much academic discourse—whose political desires I mostly share ...
Inhoudsopgave
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 |
9 The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity | 137 |
Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America | 157 |
Educating the American Theater | 181 |
12 The Pipe Dreams of ONeill in the Age of Deconstruction | 189 |
Notes | 321 |
Previous Publications | 335 |
Index | 337 |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000 Herbert Blau Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2002 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
acting actors aesthetic American theater appearance Artaud artists Atget audience avant-garde Barthes Baudrillard Beckett Bertolt Brecht body Brecht Broadway Bunraku Cal Arts conception critique culture dead deconstruction Denise desire drama dream emotion essay fantasy Ghost Group Group Theater Hamlet happened Herbert Blau Humorous Lieutenant idea ideological illusion imagination Impossible Theater Isidore issue Jack Jules Irving kind King Lear KRAKEN less look madness Margaret matter meaning memory mind modern moving myth never O’Neill performance Peter photograph play politics postmodern production question regional theaters rehearsal representation Richard Foreman ritual Roland Barthes San Francisco scene seems sense sequence sixties social sort sound space speak spectacle stage Stelarc structure sure T. S. Eliot thea theatrical theory thing thought tion trans truth voice Waiting for Godot words Workshop wrote York