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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... Impossible Takes a Little Time 18 3. Spacing Out in the American Theater 37 4. From Red Hill to the Renaissance Rehearsing the Resistance 5. A Dove in My Chimney 62 6. Elsinore 70 An Analytic Scenario 7. Deep Throat 118 The Grail of the ...
... from theater , with its topography of appearance , always under suspicion , and the impossible prospect of ever relieving that — no more than a generation of anti- Oedipus or the lure of performative bodies has relieved us x Introduction.
... Impossible Takes a Little Time " has as its implicit referent the many years of working on precisely that , the impossible and its im- pediments , back in San Francisco ( and the book I wrote about it ) . To the question , asked in the ...
... impossible without the production of Broadway plays . It was these that paid the bills for our more controversial repertoire . With the onerous task of keeping us sol- vent , my partner Jules Irving ( too long gone and still lamented ) ...
... Impossible Theater : A Manifesto ( 1964 ) — which was just that , starting with a corrosive assault on the state of the art in the emergent period of the Cold War . There are many more thea- ters around ( " regional theaters " then ...
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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