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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... thing that's passing strange2—from whatever there was before, whatever name we give it (was it there be- fore?) that we think of as other than theater. Is it life? is it the real? or the relations of production? or, in the ether of ...
... thing that's passing strange2—from whatever there was before, whatever name we give it (was it there be- fore?) that we think of as other than theater. Is it life? is it the real? or the relations of production? or, in the ether of ...
Pagina xiii
... things you are almost ashamed of to bring out a surpassing performance, coaching and directing seem alike. What I had to say there, which led to a lively interchange, is expanded here as the final piece in the volume, “Limits of ...
... things you are almost ashamed of to bring out a surpassing performance, coaching and directing seem alike. What I had to say there, which led to a lively interchange, is expanded here as the final piece in the volume, “Limits of ...
Pagina xvii
... thing is sure: their “bloodlines are decidedly of the avant-garde,” which caused me to observe that—while hardly indifferent to politics, with transgressive credentials too—they would probably wince at current notions of art as (in the ...
... thing is sure: their “bloodlines are decidedly of the avant-garde,” which caused me to observe that—while hardly indifferent to politics, with transgressive credentials too—they would probably wince at current notions of art as (in the ...
Pagina xix
... Thing, and the literary types in The Designated Mourner, the reviewer goes on to say that “all are challenging, and charming, audiences with the force of intellect.”12 Welcome as this may be, it is not merely the IQ of characters I had ...
... Thing, and the literary types in The Designated Mourner, the reviewer goes on to say that “all are challenging, and charming, audiences with the force of intellect.”12 Welcome as this may be, it is not merely the IQ of characters I had ...
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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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