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 xv
... kind of history, too, in some of the essay titles, like those that open the book, which may be pointing forward but are also looking behind. “The Impossible Takes a Little Time” has as its implicit referent the many years of working on ...
... kind of history, too, in some of the essay titles, like those that open the book, which may be pointing forward but are also looking behind. “The Impossible Takes a Little Time” has as its implicit referent the many years of working on ...
Pagina xvi
... kind of cerebral passion in the remarkable bodies of the actors, who—speaking of corporeal style—could literally perform standing on their heads or, with ideographic precision, acrobatically through the air. Situated where it is, the ...
... kind of cerebral passion in the remarkable bodies of the actors, who—speaking of corporeal style—could literally perform standing on their heads or, with ideographic precision, acrobatically through the air. Situated where it is, the ...
Pagina xxii
... kind of brain fever in the body, caught up almost acrobatically in the incessant ghosting of thought.” This would appear to be at some performative and conceptual distance from the Method that came out of the Group Theater in the ...
... kind of brain fever in the body, caught up almost acrobatically in the incessant ghosting of thought.” This would appear to be at some performative and conceptual distance from the Method that came out of the Group Theater in the ...
Pagina xxiii
... kind of event or aspect of behavior, commonplace or hieratic, sexual or pornographic, political or fantastic, with attention in the process to remote and peculiar forms that have not only become increasingly familiar but seem part of ...
... kind of event or aspect of behavior, commonplace or hieratic, sexual or pornographic, political or fantastic, with attention in the process to remote and peculiar forms that have not only become increasingly familiar but seem part of ...
Pagina 3
... kind of friction in the shifting signifiers. What appears to be life may be theater, but for all the dazzle of appearances even fashion carries with it, as in the erotics of makeup, its “natural look,” the thought of something more ...
... kind of friction in the shifting signifiers. What appears to be life may be theater, but for all the dazzle of appearances even fashion carries with it, as in the erotics of makeup, its “natural look,” the thought of something more ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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 |
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