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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... look , however , at the plaintive end of Derrida's essay on Artaud , " The Theater of Cruelty and the Closure of Representation , " to realize that even the shattered mirror sustains , in its myriad of replications , all scenarios ...
... look away , close as it was — in the recombinant seeming of body parts , ear into heel , ass into mouth , a breasted elbow in flowing hair , sperm , shit , spittle , an intestinal presence in the all - seeing eye — to the " miraculated ...
... look to other cul- tures for alternatives to the endemic aggressiveness , unappeased longing , and therapeutic urgencies of modern life , we encounter in every direc- tion this unsettling truth : " those alternative or nonaggressive ...
... look , " the thought of something more authentic , dative , other than mere appearance . That there is an artifice to this dubious look does not necessarily diminish the thought , nor does the theoretical animus against anything like ...
... look of being looked at . And by the time of Beckett's Play , so far as the human presence was concerned , not entirely sure of that : " Am I as much as ... being seen ? " ( Shorter Plays , 157 ) . The terror of not being seen ...
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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