Author: Mischa Twitchin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137478721
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This book is concerned with such questions as the following: What is the life of the past in the present? How might “the theatre of death” and “the uncanny in mimesis” allow us to conceive of the afterlife of a supposedly ephemeral art practice? How might a theatrical iconology engage with such fundamental social relations as those between the living and the dead? Distinct from the dominant expectation that actors should appear life-like onstage, why is it that some theatre artists – from Craig to Castellucci – have conceived of the actor in the image of the dead? Furthermore, how might an iconology of the actor allow us to imagine the afterlife of an apparently ephemeral art practice? This book explores such questions through the implications of the twofold analogy proposed in its very title: as theatre is to the uncanny, so death is to mimesis; and as theatre is to mimesis, so death is to the uncanny. Walter Benjamin once observed that: “The point at issue in the theatre today can be more accurately defined in relation to the stage than to the play. It concerns the filling-in of the orchestra pit. The abyss which separates the actors from the audience like the dead from the living...” If the relation between the living and the dead can be thought of in terms of an analogy with ancient theatre, how might avant-garde theatre be thought of in terms of this same relation “today”?
The Theatre of Death – The Uncanny in Mimesis
Author: Mischa Twitchin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137478721
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This book is concerned with such questions as the following: What is the life of the past in the present? How might “the theatre of death” and “the uncanny in mimesis” allow us to conceive of the afterlife of a supposedly ephemeral art practice? How might a theatrical iconology engage with such fundamental social relations as those between the living and the dead? Distinct from the dominant expectation that actors should appear life-like onstage, why is it that some theatre artists – from Craig to Castellucci – have conceived of the actor in the image of the dead? Furthermore, how might an iconology of the actor allow us to imagine the afterlife of an apparently ephemeral art practice? This book explores such questions through the implications of the twofold analogy proposed in its very title: as theatre is to the uncanny, so death is to mimesis; and as theatre is to mimesis, so death is to the uncanny. Walter Benjamin once observed that: “The point at issue in the theatre today can be more accurately defined in relation to the stage than to the play. It concerns the filling-in of the orchestra pit. The abyss which separates the actors from the audience like the dead from the living...” If the relation between the living and the dead can be thought of in terms of an analogy with ancient theatre, how might avant-garde theatre be thought of in terms of this same relation “today”?
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137478721
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This book is concerned with such questions as the following: What is the life of the past in the present? How might “the theatre of death” and “the uncanny in mimesis” allow us to conceive of the afterlife of a supposedly ephemeral art practice? How might a theatrical iconology engage with such fundamental social relations as those between the living and the dead? Distinct from the dominant expectation that actors should appear life-like onstage, why is it that some theatre artists – from Craig to Castellucci – have conceived of the actor in the image of the dead? Furthermore, how might an iconology of the actor allow us to imagine the afterlife of an apparently ephemeral art practice? This book explores such questions through the implications of the twofold analogy proposed in its very title: as theatre is to the uncanny, so death is to mimesis; and as theatre is to mimesis, so death is to the uncanny. Walter Benjamin once observed that: “The point at issue in the theatre today can be more accurately defined in relation to the stage than to the play. It concerns the filling-in of the orchestra pit. The abyss which separates the actors from the audience like the dead from the living...” If the relation between the living and the dead can be thought of in terms of an analogy with ancient theatre, how might avant-garde theatre be thought of in terms of this same relation “today”?
Eroticism and Death in Theatre and Performance
Author: Karoline Gritzner
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN: 9781902806921
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The essays brought together in this collection offer new perspectives on the eros/death relation in a wide selection of dramatic texts, theatrical practices and cultural performances.
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN: 9781902806921
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The essays brought together in this collection offer new perspectives on the eros/death relation in a wide selection of dramatic texts, theatrical practices and cultural performances.
Death, the One and the Art of Theatre
Author: Howard Barker
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415349864
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The latest collection of Barker's philosophical musings on theatre, this volume includes speculations, deductions, prose poems & poetic apercus, which cast a unique light on the nature of tragedy, eroticism, love & theatre.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415349864
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The latest collection of Barker's philosophical musings on theatre, this volume includes speculations, deductions, prose poems & poetic apercus, which cast a unique light on the nature of tragedy, eroticism, love & theatre.
The Theatre of Death
Author: Jennifer Woodward
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0851157041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
English royal funeral ceremony from Mary, Queen of Scots to James I gives fascinating insight into the relationship between power and ritual at the renaissance court.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0851157041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
English royal funeral ceremony from Mary, Queen of Scots to James I gives fascinating insight into the relationship between power and ritual at the renaissance court.
Chicago Death Trap
Author: Nat Brandt
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 080932721X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A blow-by-blow account of the deadliest fire in American history retraces the final days of the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago, a supposedly indestructible building that burned killing more than six hundred people.
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 080932721X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A blow-by-blow account of the deadliest fire in American history retraces the final days of the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago, a supposedly indestructible building that burned killing more than six hundred people.
Death of England
Author: Roy Williams
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350167908
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
He wanted you to be a better man. He wanted to be a better man himself. He was lied to. Just like you are being lied to. A family in mourning. A man in crisis After the death of his dad, Michael is powerless and angry. In a state of heartbreak, he confronts the difficult truths about his father's legacy and the country that shaped him. At the funeral, unannounced and unprepared, Michael decides it is time to speak. Death of England is a powerful new monologue play by Roy Williams and Clint Dyer that explores family feelings and a country on the brink. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the National Theatre, London, in 2020.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350167908
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
He wanted you to be a better man. He wanted to be a better man himself. He was lied to. Just like you are being lied to. A family in mourning. A man in crisis After the death of his dad, Michael is powerless and angry. In a state of heartbreak, he confronts the difficult truths about his father's legacy and the country that shaped him. At the funeral, unannounced and unprepared, Michael decides it is time to speak. Death of England is a powerful new monologue play by Roy Williams and Clint Dyer that explores family feelings and a country on the brink. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the National Theatre, London, in 2020.
Murdered to Death
Author: Peter Gordon
Publisher: Chappell Plays
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A spoof in the Agatha Christie tradition. Set in a country manor house in the 1930s, an eclectic group of characters tries to determine who murdered the owner of the house. --From publisher description.
Publisher: Chappell Plays
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A spoof in the Agatha Christie tradition. Set in a country manor house in the 1930s, an eclectic group of characters tries to determine who murdered the owner of the house. --From publisher description.
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Author: Peter L. Hays
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826495540
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
An accessible, informative critical introduction to Miller's Death of a Salesman, a key text at undergraduate level.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826495540
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
An accessible, informative critical introduction to Miller's Death of a Salesman, a key text at undergraduate level.
Death Takes a Holiday
Author: Thomas Meehan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780573704055
Category : Death (Personification)
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
"In Death Takes a Holiday, it's just after World War I and the loneliest of souls arrives at an Italian villa disguised as a handsome young Prince, and for the first time experiences the joys and heartbreaks of life. The show began as an Alberto Casella play from the 1920s that was made into a much-loved 1934 film. The original film was remade in 1998 as Meet Joe Black."--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780573704055
Category : Death (Personification)
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
"In Death Takes a Holiday, it's just after World War I and the loneliest of souls arrives at an Italian villa disguised as a handsome young Prince, and for the first time experiences the joys and heartbreaks of life. The show began as an Alberto Casella play from the 1920s that was made into a much-loved 1934 film. The original film was remade in 1998 as Meet Joe Black."--Page 4 of cover.
Death by Design
Author: Rob Urbinati
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780573700934
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Edward Bennett, a playwright, and his wife Sorel Bennett, an actress, flee London and head to Cookham after a disastrous opening night. But various guests arrive unexpectedly - a conservative politician, a fiery socialist, a nearsighted ingenue, a zany modern dancer - each with a long-held secret. When one of the guests is murdered, it's left to Bridgit, the feisty Irish maid with a macabre interest in homicide, to solve the crime.
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780573700934
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Edward Bennett, a playwright, and his wife Sorel Bennett, an actress, flee London and head to Cookham after a disastrous opening night. But various guests arrive unexpectedly - a conservative politician, a fiery socialist, a nearsighted ingenue, a zany modern dancer - each with a long-held secret. When one of the guests is murdered, it's left to Bridgit, the feisty Irish maid with a macabre interest in homicide, to solve the crime.