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
... play. Chastening it may have been, but with every device of Alienation almost 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 ...
... play. Chastening it may have been, but with every device of Alienation almost 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 ...
Pagina xviii
... plays by Brecht, Sean O'Casey, and Arthur Miller, all of them on the left, sufficiently so that we developed a considerable following among the labor unions and—with its newspaper, The People's World, giving us rave reviews—the ...
... plays by Brecht, Sean O'Casey, and Arthur Miller, all of them on the left, sufficiently so that we developed a considerable following among the labor unions and—with its newspaper, The People's World, giving us rave reviews—the ...
Pagina xix
... plays. It was these that paid the bills for our more controversial repertoire. With the onerous task of keeping us ... play called Proof—about father and daughter mathematicians—began with the sentence, “Have you noticed how many well ...
... plays. It was these that paid the bills for our more controversial repertoire. With the onerous task of keeping us ... play called Proof—about father and daughter mathematicians—began with the sentence, “Have you noticed how many well ...
Pagina xx
... plays was also a productive ungrounding, thus energizing my own 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 ...
... plays was also a productive ungrounding, thus energizing my own 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 ...
Pagina xxiii
... play that was once the thing to almost any 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 ...
... play that was once the thing to almost any 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 ...
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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