{"product_id":"staging-decadence-9781350237087","title":"Staging Decadence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2024 TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow is decadence being staged today  as a practice, issue, pejorative, and as a site of pleasure? Where might we find it, why might we look for it, and who is decadence for?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is the first monographic study of decadence in theatre and performance. Adam Alston makes a passionate case for the contemporary relevance of decadence in the thick of a resurgent culture war by focusing on its antithetical relationship to capitalist-led growth, progress, and intensified productivity. He argues that the qualities used to disparage the study and practice of theatre and performance are the very things we should embrace in celebrating their value  namely, their spectacular uselessness, wastefulness, outmodedness, and abundant potential for producing forms of creativity that flow away from the ends and excesses of capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlston covers an eclectic range of examples by Julia Bardsley (UK), Hasard Le\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187289481559,"sku":"9781350237087","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/staging-decadence-9781350237087","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}