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 xii
... actors in every imaginable repeti- tion, in every conceivable corporeal style, mimetic or ideographic, laid back, ribald, wild, as if out of nightmare or, making drag innocent, in eye-opening figurations that you could hardly imagine ...
... actors in every imaginable repeti- tion, in every conceivable corporeal style, mimetic or ideographic, laid back, ribald, wild, as if out of nightmare or, making drag innocent, in eye-opening figurations that you could hardly imagine ...
Side xv
... acting and alternative theater — to give something more than an allusive sense of what , just be- fore I stopped directing , my later work was about . There is a kind of his- tory , too , in some of the essay titles , like those that ...
... acting and alternative theater — to give something more than an allusive sense of what , just be- fore I stopped directing , my later work was about . There is a kind of his- tory , too , in some of the essay titles , like those that ...
Side xvi
... acting method and roundabout by way of acting to implications for a politics of theater . These are questions to which in other books I have returned as to a catechism : first of all , what do we mean by acting ? act where ? how ? for ...
... acting method and roundabout by way of acting to implications for a politics of theater . These are questions to which in other books I have returned as to a catechism : first of all , what do we mean by acting ? act where ? how ? for ...
Side xxi
... there is anything like a peda- gogy that goes along with the syllabus , it is derived most specifically , however , from the acting methodology with which I experimented at Cal Arts, while also serving not only as dean of Introduction xxi.
... there is anything like a peda- gogy that goes along with the syllabus , it is derived most specifically , however , from the acting methodology with which I experimented at Cal Arts, while also serving not only as dean of Introduction xxi.
Side xxii
... Actor's Workshop. Clurman was generously responsive to some of my earliest writings, and his encour- agement as our ... actors we had inherited and the hazards of New York, Harold walked me back to the theater, the stage door closing him ...
... Actor's Workshop. Clurman was generously responsive to some of my earliest writings, and his encour- agement as our ... actors we had inherited and the hazards of New York, Harold walked me back to the theater, the stage door closing him ...
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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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