Read Theatre and Everyday Life

An Ethics of Performance
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-1-134-91458-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten

Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the experience of everyday life. It is a theatre which defines itself in terms of people and places rather than the idealised empty space of avant garde performance.

Read examines the relationship between an ethics of performance, a politics of place and a poetics of the urban environment. His book is a persuasive demand for a critical theory of theatre which is as mentally supple as theatre is physically versatile.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Read, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part I Practice Criticism Quotidian 1. Lay theatre 2. Regarding theatre 3. Everyday life Part 2 Nature Theatre Culture 4. Orientation: Space and place 5. Accretion: Earth and depth 6. Inspiration: Air and breath 7. Circulation: Water and hygiene 8. Combustion: Fire and safety Notes and References Index