The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000U of Minnesota Press, 1. jan. 2002 - 347 sider 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. |
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Side xi
... San Francisco , in 1957 , when I staged Mother Courage in its first American production . By the time , a few years later , I did a somewhat revisionist staging of Galileo , I had already , drawn to Beckett astride of a grave , been ...
... San Francisco , in 1957 , when I staged Mother Courage in its first American production . By the time , a few years later , I did a somewhat revisionist staging of Galileo , I had already , drawn to Beckett astride of a grave , been ...
Side xiii
... San Francisco Forty - Niners made himself eligible for the Hall of Fame by winning three Super Bowls . He and the other coaches were particularly caught up by a sequence in my talk — the only one about performance as we know it from the ...
... San Francisco Forty - Niners made himself eligible for the Hall of Fame by winning three Super Bowls . He and the other coaches were particularly caught up by a sequence in my talk — the only one about performance as we know it from the ...
Side xv
... San Francisco ( and the book I wrote about it ) . To the question , asked in the eighties , “ What's new in the ... San Fran- cisco Renaissance . Whatever the substance of the myth , in the visual arts and poetry ( and there was a lot of ...
... San Francisco ( and the book I wrote about it ) . To the question , asked in the eighties , “ What's new in the ... San Fran- cisco Renaissance . Whatever the substance of the myth , in the visual arts and poetry ( and there was a lot of ...
Side xvi
... San Francisco , in a forum at the MLA ( 1987 ) celebrating the Renaissance , as a prelude to explaining — not exactly in a celebrative mood — how we struggled , for all the ferment , against a certain inertia or provincialism in that ...
... San Francisco , in a forum at the MLA ( 1987 ) celebrating the Renaissance , as a prelude to explaining — not exactly in a celebrative mood — how we struggled , for all the ferment , against a certain inertia or provincialism in that ...
Side xviii
... San Francisco when in what appeared to be a vacuum ( not only in San Francisco ) , I was trying to create a thea- ter with a political conscience . There was a period when I directed , one after the other , plays by Brecht , Sean O ...
... San Francisco when in what appeared to be a vacuum ( not only in San Francisco ) , I was trying to create a thea- ter with a political conscience . There was a period when I directed , one after the other , plays by Brecht , Sean O ...
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2 The Impossible Takes a Little Time | 18 |
3 Spacing Out in the American Theater | 37 |
Rehearsing the Resistance | 53 |
5 A Dove in My Chimney | 62 |
An Analytic Scenario | 70 |
The Grail of the Voice | 118 |
Chills and Fever Mourning and the Vanities of the Sublime | 132 |
13 Readymade Desire | 199 |
From Tango Palace to Mud | 206 |
The Group Idea and Its Legacy | 215 |
New Music and Theater | 230 |
17 FlatOut Vision | 246 |
Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher | 265 |
Revising the Abyss | 281 |
The Insane Root | 307 |
9 The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity | 137 |
Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America | 157 |
Educating the American Theater | 181 |
12 The Pipe Dreams of ONeill in the Age of Deconstruction | 189 |
Notes | 321 |
Previous Publications | 335 |
Index | 337 |
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