Performing Drama/dramatizing Performance: Alternative Theater and the Dramatic TextExamines how the intertwining paths of avant-garde theater and mainstream drama work to produce provocative new forms |
Contents
The AvantGarde Urge and the Margins of Performance | 25 |
The sad tale a last time told Closing Performance and Liberating the Text in the Plays of Samuel Beckett | 67 |
The Fractal Dimensions of a Fractious Culture The Wooster Group and the Politics of Performance | 97 |
Of our origins In ghostlier demarcations keener sounds Robert Wilsons Search for a New Order of Vision | 155 |
The Landlocked Geography of a Horse Dreamer Performance and Consciousness in the Plays of Sam Shepard | 189 |
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