The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000U of Minnesota Press, 01.01.2002 - 347 Seiten Spanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross-reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau-his directing, writing, and criticism-has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory. Blau's struggle to bring a critical intelligence to the American stage goes back half a century, to the quiescent postwar years (which he has eloquently described in The Impossible Theater: A Manifesto). His innovations in performance began with early productions of now-canonical plays that were hardly known at that time (works by Brecht, Beckett, Genet, Pinter, Duerrenmatt, and others). His experience is as distinctive as his versatile habits of mind and conceptual urgency of style. If the impossible takes a little time (as the title of one essay states), Blau's struggle now continues in a theoretical vein. Performance-and his own compelling writing- has moved across other genres and disciplines into fashion, politics, sexuality, and theory. His diversity of thought is demonstrated here in commentaries about the newer modes of performance (including conceptual and body art), various American playwrights, Renaissance drama, new music and theater, voice, the senses and the baroque, and the photographic image. As the essays reflect upon each other, a kind of cultural history, with inflections of autobiography, develops-which is what readers of Blau's previous books have come to expect. |
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... play . Chasten- ing it may have been , but with every device of Alienation almost never as Brecht wanted . Out there in the void the image seemed existential . Or so it did back in San Francisco , in 1957 , when I staged Mother Courage ...
... play called Proof - about fa- ther and daughter mathematicians — began with the sentence , " Have you noticed how many well - educated characters are holding forth on New York stages ? " And then , calling attention to the physicists of ...
... play that was once the thing to almost any kind of event or aspect of behavior , commonplace or hieratic , sexual or pornographic , political or fantastic , with attention in the process to remote and peculiar forms that have not only ...
... play within the play , that is because the dominion of appearance is facilitated and augmented by the random exactitude of the camera : not that this not this that , the metaphor suf- fused with metonymy . Yet , for all the instamatic ...
... Play , so far as the human presence was concerned , not entirely sure of that : " Am I as much as ... being seen ? " ( Shorter Plays , 157 ) . The terror of not being seen , pandemic to the landscape of Beckett , had its inverse ( or ...
Inhalt
Theater at the End of the Real | 9 |
2 The Impossible Takes a Little Time | 26 |
3 Spacing Out in the American Theater | 45 |
Rehearsing the Resistance | 61 |
5 A Dove in My Chimney | 70 |
An Analytic Scenario | 78 |
The Grail of the Voice | 126 |
Chills and Fever Mourning and the Vanities of the Sublime | 140 |
13 Readymade Desire | 207 |
From Tango Palace to Mud | 214 |
The Group Idea and Its Legacy | 223 |
New Music and Theater | 238 |
17 FlatOut Vision | 254 |
Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher | 273 |
Revising the Abyss | 289 |
The Insane Root | 315 |
9 The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity | 145 |
Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America | 165 |
Educating the American Theater | 189 |
12 The Pipe Dreams of ONeill in the Age of Deconstruction | 197 |
Notes | 329 |
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The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000 Herbert Blau Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2002 |