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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... truth as we may—in the meta- physical mist of seeming that won't seem to go away—it somehow al- ways escapes us or is not what it appears to be, as if at the heart of the re- ality principle is the future of illusion? And why do we seem ...
... truth as we may—in the meta- physical mist of seeming that won't seem to go away—it somehow al- ways escapes us or is not what it appears to be, as if at the heart of the re- ality principle is the future of illusion? And why do we seem ...
Pagina xxiii
... truth: “those alternative or nonaggressive cultures were never what they seemed to be,” in the hallowed gestures or ceremo- nial practices that, like the soft movements of the Tai Chi Chuan, have been drawn into the orbit of performance ...
... truth: “those alternative or nonaggressive cultures were never what they seemed to be,” in the hallowed gestures or ceremo- nial practices that, like the soft movements of the Tai Chi Chuan, have been drawn into the orbit of performance ...
Pagina 1
... truth of its fatal attraction—whatever it might be. So far as I understand that obsession, it arose from the grounds of impossibility out of unabat- ing desire, in theater, now theory, to get as close to the thought of thea- ter as ...
... truth of its fatal attraction—whatever it might be. So far as I understand that obsession, it arose from the grounds of impossibility out of unabat- ing desire, in theater, now theory, to get as close to the thought of thea- ter as ...
Pagina 3
... truth-claiming authority of an original, make the whole issue any the less fascinating. It is, of course, the fascination-effect that links fashion and theater, and both have gone through phases where they have also tried to resist it ...
... truth-claiming authority of an original, make the whole issue any the less fascinating. It is, of course, the fascination-effect that links fashion and theater, and both have gone through phases where they have also tried to resist it ...
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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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