Theaters Of Capitalism
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Theaters Of Capitalism
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Author : David Boje
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-07-29
Theaters Of Capitalism written by David Boje and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-29 with categories.
I think one requirement for conscious capitalism is that we understand the social process and dialectic of creativity and oppression. Some oppression is highly creative, and some forms of resistance are not all that creative. Much of the resistance is individual, thought in the postmodern turn, a wide variety of different social causes and movements are networking to put on large-scale carnivals of protest. This partly affirms social creativity, and partly rechannels individual expression in postmodern carnivals of resistance. The Society of the Spectacle, is a form of theatre that imposes constraints upon individual improvisation, deviances from some script, carry severe punishments. Yet, in the most oppressive, most McDonaldized scripting of our work and consumption lives, there is room from creative resistance and improvisation, one might call festive. I conclude that theatre is dangerous. We are addicted to spectacle theatre, there is not enough carnival to resist, and we do not know how to perform work and leisure in a more festive relationship to Nature or each other. We witness the contest of spectacle and carnival in the Battle for Seattle, and the subsequent off-Broadway performances in Canada, Switzerland, Italy, and in post-September 11, the war on terror. These are not festive theatrical performances, they are increasingly dangerous, and the blood is flowing.
Waste
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Author : Jessica Rizzo
language : en
Publisher: punctum books
Release Date : 2020-06-06
Waste written by Jessica Rizzo and has been published by punctum books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-06 with Performing Arts categories.
If at its most elemental, the theater is an art form of human bodies in space, what becomes of the theater as suicide capitalism pushes our world into a posthuman age? Waste: Capitalism and the Dissolution of the Human in Twentieth-Century Theater traces the twentieth-century theater's movement from dramaturgies of efficiency to dramaturgies of waste, beginning with the observation that the most salient feature of the human is her ability to be ashamed of herself, to experience herself as excess, the waster and the waste of the world. By examining theatrical representations of capitalism, war, climate change, and the permanent refugee crisis, Waste traces the ways in which these human-driven events signal a tendency toward prodigality that terminates with self-destruction. Defying its promise of abundance for all, capitalism poisons all relationships with competition and fear. The desire to dominate in war is revealed to be the desire to obliterate the self in collective conflagration. The refugee crisis raises the urgent question of our responsibility to the other, but the climate crisis renders the question of anthropocentric obligations moot.Waste proposes that the theater is the form best suited to confronting the human's perverse relationship to its finitude. Everything about the theater is suffused with existential shame, with an acute awareness of its provisionality. Unlike the dominant narrative of the human, which is bound up with a fantasy of infinite growth, the theater is not deluded about its nature, origins, and destiny. At its best, the theater gathers artist and audience in one space to die together for a little while, to consciously waste, and not spend, their time. JESSICA RIZZO is an American writer, director, and dramaturge. She holds a DFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama, where she served as Associate Editor of Theater magazine and was awarded the John W. Gassner Prize for Criticism. She has taught at the Yale School of Drama, Yale College, and Bryn Mawr College. In 2017, she directed the North American premiere of Elfriede Jelinek's Shadow: Eurydice Says in New York City. She has also worked at the Yale Repertory Theatre and the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj, and has had her work presented as part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival. Her writing has appeared in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, TheaterForum, Theatre Journal, Theater, TDR, Austrian Studies, the Theatre Times, Vice, Momus, LA's Cultural Weekly, Philadelphia's Broad Street Review and ArtBlog, and Romania's Scena.ro.
Performances Of Capitalism Crises And Resistance
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Author : Marilena Zaroulia
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-07-27
Performances Of Capitalism Crises And Resistance written by Marilena Zaroulia and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-27 with Performing Arts categories.
Discussing crises through diverse examples, including the UK's National Theatre, public art installations, Occupy LSX, repatriation ceremonies and performances of the everyday, this book asks how performance captures and resists what is considered (politically, ideologically, culturally or socially) 'inside' or 'outside' Europe.
Theatre In Market Economies
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Author : Michael McKinnie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Theatre In Market Economies written by Michael McKinnie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Capitalism and theater categories.
"Theatre in Market Economies explores the complex relationship between theatre and the market economy during roughly the past two decades in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and the United States. It takes an interdisciplinary, materialist approach that draws on political economy, geography, and cultural theory, to reveal a theatre that is increasingly taking up the mission of the "mixed economy": to combine economic efficiency with social security, while promoting liberal democracy. Theatre's assumption of this mantle has happened during much the same time as the purchase of social democracy and the centre-left have declined within electoral politics and the tools of the welfare state have been used to regulate ever more closely the lives of citizens rather than the operations of markets. Through a wide-ranging analysis of theatrical working practices, institutions, environments, and ideologies, Theatre in Market Economies explores the intimate and ambiguous relationship between theatre and the market economny, onstage and off. It depicts a theatre that is not only a familiar cultural institution but is, in many ways, an exemplary political economic one as well"--
Martin Crimp S Theatre
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Author : Clara Escoda Agusti
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-05-28
Martin Crimp S Theatre written by Clara Escoda Agusti and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-28 with Drama categories.
This book reads Martin Crimp’s The Treatment (1993), Attempts on her Life (1997), The Country (2000), Face to the Wall (2002), Cruel and Tender (2004) and his adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull (2006) in the context of contemporary, late capitalist societies of control or of ‘spectacle’, and explores how female collapse in particular works as a form of denunciation of the violence of globalized, technological neo-liberalism. The book contends that Crimp is a post-Holocaust writer, whose dramaturgy is pervaded by the ethical and aesthetic debates that the Holocaust has generated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its main claim is that, by interpellating spectators through the defamiliarized language of collapse and testimony, Crimp invites spectators to contribute to detecting the seeds of ‘barbarism’ as they may detect them in their context, thus warning them about the introduction of violence in supposedly civilized relationships and thereby also contributing to overcoming the contemporary ethical impasse. The book finally argues that female characters who pass on their testimony are shown to the audience in the ‘process of becoming’ ethical bodies – namely, they are emerge as ethical out of the perceived necessity to integrate both the Other as essential parts of their beings, thus recovering an innate, Baumian sense of responsibility towards the Other.
Broadway And Corporate Capitalism
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Author : M. Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-07-20
Broadway And Corporate Capitalism written by M. Schwartz and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-20 with History categories.
Through an examination of plays, actors, reviews, and audience response of the period, this study traces the development of Broadway as a source of 'mature' American drama, and the simultaneous development of Professional-Managerial Class consciousness and habitus.
Staging Decadence
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Author : Adam Alston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Staging Decadence written by Adam Alston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Décadence categories.
How 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? This 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. Alston covers an eclectic range of examples by Julia Bardsley (UK), Hasard Le Sin (Finland), jaamil olawale kosoko (USA), Toco Nikaido (Japan), Martin O'Brien (UK), Toshiki Okada (Japan), Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca (Spain), Normandy Sherwood (USA), The Uhuruverse (USA), Nia O. Witherspoon (USA), and Wunderbaum (Netherlands). Expect ruminations on monstrous scenographies, catatonic choreographies, turbo-charged freneticism, visions of the apocalypse - and what might lie in its wake.
A History Of Romanian Theatre From Communism To Capitalism
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Author : Cristina Modreanu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-09-18
A History Of Romanian Theatre From Communism To Capitalism written by Cristina Modreanu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-18 with Performing Arts categories.
A History of Romanian Theatre from Communism to Capitalism analyses the last three decades of Romanian theatre and connects it to the international stage. Cristina Modreanu questions the relationship between artists and power, both before 1989, behind the Iron Curtain, and in the current global political context, with nationalism manifesting itself in Eastern Europe, as seen in the critical work of Romanian theatre makers. This study covers the complex cases of theatre makers such as Lucian Pintilie, Liviu Ciulei and Andrei Șerban, who built their international careers in exile, and the most innovative Romanian artists of today, such as Silviu Purcărete, Mihai Măniuţiu, Gianina Cărbunariu, Radu Afrim, and Bogdan Georgescu, who reached the status of transglobal artists. Filling a considerable gap in Romanian theatre discourse, this book will be of a great interest to students and scholars of contemporary theatre and history.
Theater Of Capital
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Author : Alisa Zhulina
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2024-01-15
Theater Of Capital written by Alisa Zhulina and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-15 with Performing Arts categories.
Reads canonical works of modern drama in relation to the economic ideas of their era Emerging amid the turbulent rise of market finance and wider socioeconomic changes, modern drama enacted vital critiques of art and life under capitalism. Alisa Zhulina shows how fin-de-siècle playwrights such as Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, and Gerhart Hauptmann interrogated the meaning of this newly coined economic concept. Acutely aware of their complicity in the system they sought to challenge, these playwrights staged economic questions as moral and political concerns, using their plays to explore the theories of Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Max Weber, and others within the boundaries of bourgeois theater. Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life reveals the prescient and unsettling visions of life in a new financial and societal reality in now-canonical plays such as A Doll’s House, Miss Julie, and The Cherry Orchard, as well as in lesser-known and long-overlooked works. This wide-ranging study prompts us to reevaluate modern drama and its legacy for the urgent economic and political questions that haunt our present moment.
Scenes From Bourgeois Life
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Author : Nicholas Ridout
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2020-06-22
Scenes From Bourgeois Life written by Nicholas Ridout and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-22 with Performing Arts categories.
Scenes from Bourgeois Life proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility, characterized by the cultivation of distance. In Nicholas Ridout’s formulation, this distance is produced and maintained at two different scales. First is the distance of the colonial relation, not just in miles between Jamaica and London, but also the social, economic, and psychological distances involved in that relation. The second is the distance of spectatorship, not only of the modern theatregoer as consumer, but the larger and pervasive disposition to observe, comment, and sit in judgment, which becomes characteristic of the bourgeois relation to the rest of the world. This engagingly written study of history, class, and spectatorship offers compelling proof of “why theater matters,” and demonstrates the importance of examining the question historically.