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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... sense of transcendence one may feel in tragedy but rather a flat - out attesta- tion to the powers of imagination ... senses with surpassing vision where — surely on a flat surface — the senses do not go . But at the risk of being sucked ...
... 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 open the book , which may be pointing forward but are also looking behind ...
... sense , it can do without the enclosure of a ready Foucauldian rhetoric , nor will it be opened to material reality , the con- tested substance of it , by a fix of revisionist Marx , or whatever now- commonplace disposition to the ...
... sense of the " deep structure " or the " power struc- ture " ( terms in usage then ) , as well as the " instituting discourse " with its " spirals of power " ( familiar usage now ) that with more or less vanity is still being struggled ...
... sense of the " fervently impossible , " there was a point in both of our lives where we had to assess whatever illusions we may have had about the social formation required in order to sustain a theater . When the Group sus- pended ...
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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