Theatre, Intimacy & Engagement

The Last Human Venue
2009. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-230-23524-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Studies in International Performance

This title unravels politics from theatre in order to propose a new means to politicize performance. Performance analyses ranging from child actors, animals and objects to reflections on the innovative theatre work of Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Forced Entertainment and Goat Island combine to offer a radical critique of performance studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Read, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Self-Evident: Intimacy and Engagement The Human Laboratory: Parable of A Recent Past Nature, Theatre and Politics: The Present Project A Second Naivete: The Future Constitution PART I: ON THE SOCIAL LIFE OF THEATRE: TOWARDS A SCIENCE OF APPEARANCE The Ends of Politics, A Singular Art, The Social Conditional, Begin Again, Sufficient Goods, The Present Imperfect, Discipline in Distress, A Life in The Theatre, Theatre Returns PART II: ON PERFORMANCE AS SUCH AND ON HUMAN PERFORMANCE IN PARTICULAR The Anthropological Machine Nature Table Stage Play Ring Side Redeemed Night Infant Enthusiasm PART III: ON THE PART OF THOSE WHO HAVE NO PART The Distribution of The Sensible Recalling the Collective Forensic Display Arrested Life The Democracy Machine PART IV: IN THE EVENT OF EXTINCTION: NATURAL HISTORY AND ITS ENDS Destination Nature, Natural History, The Extinction of Performance, The Last Human Venue, The Franciscan Model POSTSCRIPT The Paradox of The Actor The Parallax of The Performer The Lazarus Affect Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

ALAN READ is currently Professor of Theatre at King's College London. In the 1980s he directed the neighbourhood theatre, Rotherhithe Theatre Workshop, in the 1990s he lived and worked in Barcelona and was Director of Talks at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Alan Read is the author of and the editor of and .