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Theatre And Death
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Author : Mark Robson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-05-25
Theatre And Death written by Mark Robson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-25 with Performing Arts categories.
This new title in the Theatre And series confronts the complex relationship between theatre and death. Taking the position that all humans need to 'live' with the reality of death, Mark Robson draws on a range of examples, from Greek theatre to contemporary practitioners, in order to testify to the potency of both theatre and death in contemporary culture. Striking and thought-provoking, this book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of theatre and performance, or English literature students with an interest in tragedy.
Death In Modern Theatre
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Author : Adrian Curtin
language : en
Publisher: Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance
Release Date : 2019-02-08
Death In Modern Theatre written by Adrian Curtin and has been published by Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-08 with Criticism, interpretation, etc categories.
Death in modern theatre offers a unique account of modern Western theatre, focusing on the ways in which dramatists and theatre-makers have explored historically informed ideas about death and dying in their work. It investigates the opportunities theatre affords to reflect on the end of life in a compelling and socially meaningful fashion. In a series of interrelated, mostly chronological, micronarratives beginning in the late nineteenth century and ending in the early twenty-first century, this book considers how and why death and dying are represented at certain historical moments using dramaturgy and aesthetics that challenge audiences' conceptions, sensibilities, and sense-making faculties. It includes a mix of well-known and lesser-known plays from an international range of dramatists and theatre-makers, and offers original interpretations through close reading and performance analysis.
The Theatre Of Death The Uncanny In Mimesis
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Author : Mischa Twitchin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-10-20
The Theatre Of Death The Uncanny In Mimesis written by Mischa Twitchin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-20 with Performing Arts categories.
This book is concerned with such questions as the following: What is the life of the past in the present? How might “the theatre of death” and “the uncanny in mimesis” allow us to conceive of the afterlife of a supposedly ephemeral art practice? How might a theatrical iconology engage with such fundamental social relations as those between the living and the dead? Distinct from the dominant expectation that actors should appear life-like onstage, why is it that some theatre artists – from Craig to Castellucci – have conceived of the actor in the image of the dead? Furthermore, how might an iconology of the actor allow us to imagine the afterlife of an apparently ephemeral art practice? This book explores such questions through the implications of the twofold analogy proposed in its very title: as theatre is to the uncanny, so death is to mimesis; and as theatre is to mimesis, so death is to the uncanny. Walter Benjamin once observed that: “The point at issue in the theatre today can be more accurately defined in relation to the stage than to the play. It concerns the filling-in of the orchestra pit. The abyss which separates the actors from the audience like the dead from the living...” If the relation between the living and the dead can be thought of in terms of an analogy with ancient theatre, how might avant-garde theatre be thought of in terms of this same relation “today”?
Memory Of The Body
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Author : Jan Kott
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1992-06
Memory Of The Body written by Jan Kott 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 1992-06 with Literary Collections categories.
To see through the eyes of essayist and dramaturge Jan Kott is to gain in knowledge not just of the theater but also of human culture. Since his Shakespeare Our Contemporary appeared in English in 1964, Kott's work has altered—and strengthened—the way critics and the public approach the theater as a whole. The Memory of the Body highlights a number of dramatic personalities and personages: authors and directors Witkiewicz, Brecht, Kantor, Grotoswki, Ingmar Bergman, Wedekind; Tilly Newes on the stage in turn-of-the-century Vienna; the all-too-mortal, two-thirds divine Gilgamesh; and a shaman in rural Korea. In a style flecked with passion, poignancy, and wit, Kott moves beyond a mere discussion of theater to speak of eroticism, painting, love, and death.
The Theatre Of Death The Uncanny In Mimesis
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Author : Mischa Twitchin
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2016-07-01
The Theatre Of Death The Uncanny In Mimesis written by Mischa Twitchin and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-01 with Performing Arts categories.
This book is concerned with such questions as the following: What is the life of the past in the present? How might “the theatre of death” and “the uncanny in mimesis” allow us to conceive of the afterlife of a supposedly ephemeral art practice? How might a theatrical iconology engage with such fundamental social relations as those between the living and the dead? Distinct from the dominant expectation that actors should appear life-like onstage, why is it that some theatre artists – from Craig to Castellucci – have conceived of the actor in the image of the dead? Furthermore, how might an iconology of the actor allow us to imagine the afterlife of an apparently ephemeral art practice? This book explores such questions through the implications of the twofold analogy proposed in its very title: as theatre is to the uncanny, so death is to mimesis; and as theatre is to mimesis, so death is to the uncanny. Walter Benjamin once observed that: “The point at issue in the theatre today can be more accurately defined in relation to the stage than to the play. It concerns the filling-in of the orchestra pit. The abyss which separates the actors from the audience like the dead from the living...” If the relation between the living and the dead can be thought of in terms of an analogy with ancient theatre, how might avant-garde theatre be thought of in terms of this same relation “today”?
Death The One And The Art Of Theatre
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Author : Howard Barker
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2005
Death The One And The Art Of Theatre written by Howard Barker and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Drama categories.
The latest collection of Barker's philosophical musings on theatre, this volume includes speculations, deductions, prose poems & poetic apercus, which cast a unique light on the nature of tragedy, eroticism, love & theatre.
Death Of A Theatre
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Author : Lou Warwick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Death Of A Theatre written by Lou Warwick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.
The Death Of Character
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Author : Elinor Fuchs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Death Of Character written by Elinor Fuchs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Performing Arts categories.
"Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety of important questions in sophisticated and theoretically nuanced ways. It is hard to imagine a better tour guide than Fuchs for a trip through the last thirty years of, as she puts it, what we used to call the avant-garde. " Essays in Theatre ..". an insightful set of theoretical takes on how to think about theatre before and theatre after modernism." Theatre Journal "In short, for those who never experienced a postmodern swoon, Elinor Fuchs is an excellent informant." Performing Arts Journal ..". a thoughtful, highly readable contribution to the evolving literature on theatre and postmodernism." Modern Drama "A work of bold theoretical ambition and exceptional critical intelligence.... Fuchs combines mastery of contemporary cultural theory with a long and full participation in American theater culture: the result is a long-needed, long-awaited elaboration of a new theatrical paradigm." Una Chaudhuri, New York University "What makes this book exceptional is Fuchs acute rehearsal of the stranger unnerving events of the last generation that have in the cross-reflections of theory determined our thinking about theater. She seems to have seen and absorbed them all." Herbert Blau, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee "Surveying the extraordinary scene of the postmodern American theater, Fuchs boldly frames key issues of subjectivity and performance with the keenest of critical eyes for the compelling image and the telling gesture." Joseph Roach, Tulane University ..". Fuchs makes an exceptionally lucid and eloquent case for the value and contradictions in postmodern theater." Alice Rayner, Stanford University "Arguably the most accessible yet learned road map to what remains for many impenetrable territory an obligatory addition to all academic libraries serving upper-division undertgraduates and above." Choice "A systematic, comprehensive and historically-minded assessment of what, precisely, post-modern theatre is, anyway." American Theatre In this engrossing study, Elinor Fuchs explores the multiple worlds of theater after modernism. While The Death of Character engages contemporary cultural and aesthetic theory, Elinor Fuchs always speaks as an active theater critic. Nine of her Village Voice and American Theatre essays conclude the volume. They give an immediate, vivid account of contemporary theater and theatrical culture written from the front of rapid cultural change."
The Death Of Tarelkin And Other Plays
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Author : Александр Сухово-Кобылин
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1995
The Death Of Tarelkin And Other Plays written by Александр Сухово-Кобылин and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Drama categories.
Sukhovo-Kobylin's "Trilogy - Krechinshy's Wedding, The Case"and "The Death of Tarelkin" represent the sole literary legacy of their aristocratic author whose involvement in a sensational murder case became one of the great scandals of mid-19th century Russian society. Out of the drama of his own life, Sukhovo-Kobylin fashioned a trilogy of plays remarkable for the acidity of their satire against the tsarist bureaucracy and police. It is not only for their pungent satire that the plays have continued to attract attention ever since. They are, above all, splendidly theatrical and encompass not one but several different traditions of theatre from the "well-made play" of Scribe to the absurd comedy of Gogol. "As for sheer stagecraft," writes Price D.S. Mirsky in his "A History of Russian Literature," "they have no rivals in Russian literary drama." Harold B. Segel is Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York. He is the author of ten books and numer
Theatre And Death
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Author : Mark Robson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-05-25
Theatre And Death written by Mark Robson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-25 with Performing Arts categories.
This new title in the Theatre And series confronts the complex relationship between theatre and death. Taking the position that all humans need to 'live' with the reality of death, Mark Robson draws on a range of examples, from Greek theatre to contemporary practitioners, in order to testify to the potency of both theatre and death in contemporary culture. Striking and thought-provoking, this book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of theatre and performance, or English literature students with an interest in tragedy.