The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000U of Minnesota Press, 2002 M01 1 - 347 páginas 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. Blau's struggle to bring a critical intelligence to the American stage goes back half a century, to the quiescent postwar years (which he has eloquently described in The Impossible Theater: A Manifesto). His innovations in performance began with early productions of now-canonical plays that were hardly known at that time (works by Brecht, Beckett, Genet, Pinter, Duerrenmatt, and others). His experience is as distinctive as his versatile habits of mind and conceptual urgency of style. If the impossible takes a little time (as the title of one essay states), Blau's struggle now continues in a theoretical vein. Performance-and his own compelling writing- has moved across other genres and disciplines into fashion, politics, sexuality, and theory. His diversity of thought is demonstrated here in commentaries about the newer modes of performance (including conceptual and body art), various American playwrights, Renaissance drama, new music and theater, voice, the senses and the baroque, and the photographic image. As the essays reflect upon each other, a kind of cultural history, with inflections of autobiography, develops-which is what readers of Blau's previous books have come to expect. |
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... America on acid - free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal - opportunity educator and employer . 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Kathy nothing dubious here Contents Introduction ix 1. Afterthought.
... America 11. With Your Permission 181 Educating the American Theater 12. The Pipe Dreams of O'Neill in the Age of Deconstruction 189 13. Readymade Desire 199 14. Water under the Bridge 206 From Tango Palace to Mud 15. Fervently ...
... 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 equivocating about Brecht and his cri- tique of dramatic form that ...
... American playwrights . As for the one inclu- sion that is not quite an essay , the " analytical scenario " of Elsinore — a text generated from Hamlet in my work with the KRAKEN group — it might have followed what I say of Lear , in ...
... American theater and alternatives within it , including my own work , which had recently been suspended . If the title seems anoma- lous , it refers to the fact that while I was turning over the questions , there was a dove in my ...
Contenido
Theater at the End of the Real | 9 |
2 The Impossible Takes a Little Time | 26 |
3 Spacing Out in the American Theater | 45 |
Rehearsing the Resistance | 61 |
5 A Dove in My Chimney | 70 |
An Analytic Scenario | 78 |
The Grail of the Voice | 126 |
Chills and Fever Mourning and the Vanities of the Sublime | 140 |
13 Readymade Desire | 207 |
From Tango Palace to Mud | 214 |
The Group Idea and Its Legacy | 223 |
New Music and Theater | 238 |
17 FlatOut Vision | 254 |
Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher | 273 |
Revising the Abyss | 289 |
The Insane Root | 315 |
9 The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity | 145 |
Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America | 165 |
Educating the American Theater | 189 |
12 The Pipe Dreams of ONeill in the Age of Deconstruction | 197 |
Notes | 329 |
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