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 ix
... sequence, they constitute by accretion in the conceptual back and forth a sort of intellectual history of a turning from theater to theory, charged as it was to begin with by the work I had done in the theater— which, elsewhere, I have ...
... sequence, they constitute by accretion in the conceptual back and forth a sort of intellectual history of a turning from theater to theory, charged as it was to begin with by the work I had done in the theater— which, elsewhere, I have ...
Pagina xiii
... sequence in my talk — the only one about performance as we know it from the theater — that referred to high- pressure moments in practice or rehearsal when , doing things you are al- most ashamed of to bring out a surpassing performance ...
... sequence in my talk — the only one about performance as we know it from the theater — that referred to high- pressure moments in practice or rehearsal when , doing things you are al- most ashamed of to bring out a surpassing performance ...
Pagina xv
... sequence on American playwrights . As for the one inclu- sion that is not quite an essay , the “ analytical scenario ” of Elsinore — a text generated from Hamlet in my work with the kraken group — it might have followed what I say of ...
... sequence on American playwrights . As for the one inclu- sion that is not quite an essay , the “ analytical scenario ” of Elsinore — a text generated from Hamlet in my work with the kraken group — it might have followed what I say of ...
Pagina xix
... sequence on American playwrights may be thought of as a sort of atonement . For it may be apparent here and there that since my earliest work in the theater I have not been very well disposed to American drama , though I have always ...
... sequence on American playwrights may be thought of as a sort of atonement . For it may be apparent here and there that since my earliest work in the theater I have not been very well disposed to American drama , though I have always ...
Pagina xxii
... Sequence that eventually came out of this work, and which in its execution becomes a performance itself. The essay—written for a conference (in 1982) at the Center for Music Experiment, University of California at San Diego— is placed ...
... Sequence that eventually came out of this work, and which in its execution becomes a performance itself. The essay—written for a conference (in 1982) at the Center for Music Experiment, University of California at San Diego— is placed ...
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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