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Taylor & Francis Postdramatic Theatre
Book SynopsisNewly adapted for the Anglophone reader, this is an excellent translation of Hans-Thies Lehmannâs groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms that have developed since the late 1960s, which has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theatre.In looking at the developments since the late 1960s, Lehmann considers them in relation to dramatic theory and theatre history, as an inventive response to the emergence of new technologies, and as an historical shift from a text-based culture to a new media age of image and sound.Engaging with theoreticians of 'drama' from Aristotle and Brecht, to Barthes and Schechner, the book analyzes the work of recent experimental theatre practitioners such as Robert Wilson, Tadeusz Kantor, Heiner MÃller, the Wooster Group, Needcompany and Societas Raffaello Sanzio. Illustrated by a wealth of practical examples, and with an introduction by Karen JÃrs-Munby providing useful theoretical and arTrade Review'This is a provocative, illuminating and stimulating book that will undoubtedly become as essential a text in English theatre scholarship as it already has in continental Europe.' – Marvin Carlson, Theatre Research International'This groundbreaking study [is] an inventive response to the emergence of new technologies.' - International Theatre Informations'This is an important book, already elbowing its way into the forefront of English-language critical discourse on theatre...' --TDR'This is a provocative, illuminating and stimulating book that will undoubtedly become as essential a text in English theatre scholarship as it already has in continental Europe.' – Marvin Carlson, Theatre Research International'this groundbreaking study [is] an inventive response to the emergence of new technologies' - International Theatre InformationsTable of ContentsPreface to the English Edition 1. Prologue 2. Drama Drama and Theatre Drama and Dialectic 3. Pre-histories Towards a Prehistory of Postdramatic Theatre A Short Look Back at the Historical Avant-gardes 4. Panorama of Postdramatic Theatre Beyond Dramatic Action: Ceremony, Voices in Space, Landscape Postdramatic Theatrical Signs Examples 5. Performance Theatre and Performance The Present of Performance 6. Aspects: Text - Space - Time - Body - Media Text Space Time Body Media 7. Epilogue 8. Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis The Adelphi Players The Theatre of Persons 39 Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
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Taylor & Francis Theatre of Conscience 193953 A Study of Four Touring British Community Theatres 41 Routledge Harwood Contemporary Theatre Studies
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Taylor & Francis Loving Big Brother
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Antonin Artaud
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Taylor & Francis Disability and Contemporary Performance Bodies on the Edge
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Disability and Contemporary Performance Bodies on
Book SynopsisDisability and Contemporary Performance presents a remarkable challenge to existing assumptions about disability and artistic practice. In particular, it explores where cultural knowledge about disability leaves off, and the lived experience of difference begins. Petra Kuppers, herself an award-winning artist and theorist, investigates the ways in which disabled performers challenge, change and work with current stereotypes through their work. She explores freak show fantasies and ''medical theatre'' as well as live art, webwork, theatre, dance, photography and installations, to cast an entirely new light on contemporary identity politics and aesthetics. This is an outstanding exploration of some of the most pressing issues in performance, cultural and disability studies today, written by a leading practitioner and critic.Trade Review"'Timely and much needed. As a dancer, choreographer, community workshop artist, and top-notch scholar, Kuppers is uniquely qualified to address the myriad issues that arise when putting disability studies and performance studies into dialogue with one another.' - Carrie Sandahl, Florida State University"Table of ContentsList of figures, Acknowledgements, Figure acknowledgements, Performance and disability: An introduction, 1. Practices of reading difference, 2. Freaks, stages, and medical theaters, 3. Deconstructing images: Performing disability, 4. Outsider energies, 5. Encountering paralysis: Disability, trauma, and narrative, 6. New technologies of embodiment: Cyborgs and websurfers, Epilog: Toward the unknown body: Stillness, silence, and space in mental health settings, Notes, Bibliography, Index
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Taylor & Francis African Theatres and Performances
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Theatre of Howard Barker
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Theatre of Howard Barker
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Taylor & Francis Circus Bodies Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance
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Taylor & Francis Contemporary Theatres in Europe A Critical Companion
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Taylor & Francis Psychophysical Acting
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Taylor & Francis Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre Process to Performance
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Taylor & Francis Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Letters from Linda M Montano
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shakespeares Dramatic Art Collected Essays Routledge Library Editions Shakespeare Critical Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shakespeare Routledge Library Editions Shakespeare
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Taylor & Francis Coleridge on Shakespeare
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Winters Tale A Commentary on the Structure Routledge Library Editions Shakespeare
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Patterns in Shakespearian Tragedy Routledge Library Editions Shakespeare
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Taylor & Francis Theatre of Movement and Gesture
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Taylor & Francis Physical Theatres A Critical Reader
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Taylor & Francis Physical Theatres A Critical Reader
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Black and Asian Theatre In Britain A History
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Taylor & Francis Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture
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Taylor & Francis The Theatre of the Bauhaus
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell
Book SynopsisSusan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell presents critical introductions to two of the most significant American dramatists of the early twentieth century. Glaspell and Treadwell led American Theatre from outdated melodrama to the experimentation of great European playwrights like Ibsen, Strindberg and Shaw. This is the first book to deal with Glaspell and Treadwell's plays from a theatrical, rather than literary, perspective, and presents a comprehensive overview of their work from lesser known plays to seminal productions of Trifles and Machinal. Although each woman pursued her own themes, subjects and manner of stage production, this shared volume underscores the theatrical and cultural conditions influencing female playwrights in modern America. Trade Review'A dense, wellconsidered, and valuable starting point for interested scholars, directors, or instructors unfamiliar with the existing body of scholarship on Treadwell and Glaspell.' –Theatre Survey'a useful handbook, covering the lives, careers, works, production histories, and existing criticism of these two women. The resulting work is a dense, well-considered, and valuable starting point for interested scholars, directors, or instructors unfamiliar with the existing body of scholarship on Treadwell and Glaspell.' – Theatre Survey'succinctness here is characteristic of the book as a whole, and is one of its strengths' – Theatre Survey'a concise introduction to the lives, works, and criticism of these important American dramatists' – Theatre SurveyTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Susan Glaspell Life and Politics Key Plays I: The shorter plays – genesis and criticism Key Plays II: The full-length plays – genesis and criticism Key Plays III: The Feminist Appropriation of Trifles Key Plays in Production: The Verge Part 2: Sophie Treadwell Life and Politics Key Plays I: The early plays – genesis and criticism Key Plays II: Broadway plays – genesis and criticism Key Plays in Production I: Machinal – stagings and critical response Key Plays in Production II: Intimations for Saxophone Chronology Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell
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Taylor & Francis Ltd My Life in Art
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Taylor & Francis Musical Performance in the Diaspora
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Taylor & Francis Heart of Practice Within the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards
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Taylor & Francis On the Art of the Theatre Routledge Theatre Classics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Transformative Power of Performance A New Aesthetics
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Taylor & Francis GermanJewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Actor Training
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Taylor & Francis Social Works
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Taylor & Francis Social Works
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Taylor & Francis Programming Theater History
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Taylor & Francis The Contemporary Ensemble Interviews with TheatreMakers
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Taylor & Francis Ltd My New Gender Workbook A StepbyStep Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity
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Taylor & Francis African Theatres and Performances
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Taylor & Francis Exercises for Rebel Artists Radical Performance Pedagogy
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Taylor & Francis The DbD Experience
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Taylor & Francis Contemporary Mise en Scne Staging Theatre Today
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Taylor & Francis Contemporary Mise en ScÃne
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Archaeologies of Presence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd ORLAN
Book SynopsisORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks is an in-depth academic account of ORLAN''s pioneering art in its entirety. The book covers her career in performance and a range of other art forms. This single accessible overview of ORLAN''s practices describes and analyses her various innovative uses of the body as artistic material. Edited by Simon Donger with Simon Shepherd and ORLAN herself, the collection highlights her artistic impact from the perspectives of both performance and visual cultures. The book features: vintage texts by ORLAN and on ORLAN''s work, including manifestos, key writings and critical studies ten new contributions, responses and interviews by leading international specialists on performance and visual arts over fifty images demonstrating ORLAN''s art, with thirty full colour pictures a new essay by ORLAN, written specially for this volume Trade Review ‘Rather than a single, overarching account of ORLAN’s oeuvre, what this book valuably provides is a range of texts exploring overlapping ideas, myriad mouthpieces returning to and unpacking certain qualities of ORLAN’s practice in distinctly different ways, suturing and dissecting these into fascinatingly autonomous analyses. For me, quite purposefully, the undisciplined collection of texts in this rigorous and exciting volume morphs in a multitude of ways, much like the artist’s own marvellously monstrous practice.’ – Rachel Zerihan, Contemporary Theatre Review Table of ContentsPreface 1: Restless Corporealities - Simon Donger Preface 2: The Matter of ORLAN - Simon Shepherd The Triumph of the Folds - Christine Buci-Glucksmann 1 SEMINAL ARCHIVES 2 OPEN BODIES 3 HYBRID BODIES 4 CURRENT DIALOGUES
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