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 |
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... notions ( developed and somewhat exaggerated in the heyday of experimental performance ) of the limited range and power of the autonomous act of performance itself . From a longer perspective we can trace the inevitable process of this ...
... notions ( developed and somewhat exaggerated in the heyday of experimental performance ) of the limited range and power of the autonomous act of performance itself . From a longer perspective we can trace the inevitable process of this ...
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... notions of gestus and the mise - en - scène , attempts to overcome the linear narrativity ( which Müller refers to as " A - B - C dramaturgy " ) and overly didactic stance of Brecht's plays with a new " antistructure " that utilizes a ...
... notions of gestus and the mise - en - scène , attempts to overcome the linear narrativity ( which Müller refers to as " A - B - C dramaturgy " ) and overly didactic stance of Brecht's plays with a new " antistructure " that utilizes a ...
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... notion that orthodox realism and traditional naturalism by themselves lack the necessary structural , lin- guistic , and ideological flexibility to voice accurately contemporary soci- ety's sense of chaos , uncertainty , and alienation ...
... notion that orthodox realism and traditional naturalism by themselves lack the necessary structural , lin- guistic , and ideological flexibility to voice accurately contemporary soci- ety's sense of chaos , uncertainty , and alienation ...
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... notion of what George ( 1988 ) terms a " quantum theater " allows us to speak more di- rectly to the growing realization that theater is characterized not by the imposition of meaning by a determinate text upon a stable and passive ...
... notion of what George ( 1988 ) terms a " quantum theater " allows us to speak more di- rectly to the growing realization that theater is characterized not by the imposition of meaning by a determinate text upon a stable and passive ...
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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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