Railway Travel in Modern Theatre

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7864-7776-0
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Railway travel has definitely influenced modern theatre's sense of space and time. Early in the 20th century, breakthroughs - ranging from F.T. Marinetti's futurist manifestos to epic theatre's first use of the treadmill - explored the mechanical rhythms and perceptual effects of railway travel to investigate history, technology, and motion. After World War II, some playwrights and auteur directors, from Armand Gatti to Robert Wilson to Amiri Baraka, looked to locomotion not as a radically new space and time but as a reminder of obsolescence, complicity in the Holocaust, and its role in uprooting people from their communities. By analysing theatrical representations of railway travel, this book argues that modern theatre's perceptual, historical and social productions of space and time were stretched by theatre's attempts to stage the locomotive.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gillette, Kyle

Über Autor(innen)

Kyle Gillette is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Trinity University in San Antonio. He has published several articles in journals of theatre history, dramatic literature, and performance theory, including Modern Drama, Performance Research, Comparative Drama, the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, and others. He lives in San Antonio.