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
... never as Brecht wanted . Out there in the void the image seemed existential . Or so it did back in San Francisco , in 1957 , when I staged Mother Courage in its first American production . By the time , a few years later , I did a ...
... never as Brecht wanted . Out there in the void the image seemed existential . Or so it did back in San Francisco , in 1957 , when I staged Mother Courage in its first American production . By the time , a few years later , I did a ...
Pagina xii
... never mind in those who never had it, but even with the finest of actors in the most unbearable of rehearsals, of which (sitting there in the dark through the many years) I have watched more than I care to remember. As for trying to do ...
... never mind in those who never had it, but even with the finest of actors in the most unbearable of rehearsals, of which (sitting there in the dark through the many years) I have watched more than I care to remember. As for trying to do ...
Pagina xiv
... never seems to forget. The order of essays is such that, in the successions of thought, some of what appears to follow was actually written before, as if an inciting subtext had surfaced from its apparent realization. Sometimes the mate ...
... never seems to forget. The order of essays is such that, in the successions of thought, some of what appears to follow was actually written before, as if an inciting subtext had surfaced from its apparent realization. Sometimes the mate ...
Pagina xvi
... never ceasing , yet beguilingly there , that “ logorrheic bird ” took over the last page , not only with thoughts of noise but in remarks about performance under the spell of Stein . To start with , however , the issue was political ...
... never ceasing , yet beguilingly there , that “ logorrheic bird ” took over the last page , not only with thoughts of noise but in remarks about performance under the spell of Stein . To start with , however , the issue was political ...
Pagina xvii
... is about nothing but art , as in the insurgence of modernism after Baudelaire , never really meant that it had no other awareness , or intention , though that may come to awareness in the process of making Introduction xvii.
... is about nothing but art , as in the insurgence of modernism after Baudelaire , never really meant that it had no other awareness , or intention , though that may come to awareness in the process of making Introduction xvii.
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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