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Postdramatic theatre and the political : international perspectives on contemporary performance / edited by Karen Jürs-Munby, Jerome Carroll and Steven Giles.
- Title
- Postdramatic theatre and the political : international perspectives on contemporary performance / edited by Karen Jürs-Munby, Jerome Carroll and Steven Giles.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.
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- Description
- vi, 324 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Is postdramatic theatre political and if so how? How does it relate to Brecht's ideas of political theatre, for example? How can we account for the relationship between aesthetics and politics in new forms of theatre, playwriting, and performance? This book discuss crucial aspects of the issues raised by the postdramatic turn in theatre in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century: the status of the audience and modes of spectatorship in postdramatic theatre; the political claims of postdramatic theatre; postdramatic theatre's ongoing relationship with the dramatic tradition; its dialectical qualities, or its eschewing of the dialectic; questions of representation and the real in theatre; the role of bodies, perception, appearance and theatricality in postdramatic theatre; as well as subjectivity and agency in postdramatic theatre, dance and performance. Offering analyses of a wide range of international performance examples, scholars in this volume engage with Hans-Thies Lehmann's theoretical positions both affirmatively and critically, relating them to other approaches by thinkers ranging from early theorists such as Brecht, Adorno and Benjamin, to contemporary thinkers such as Fischer-Lichte, Rancière and other.
- Series Statement
- Methuen drama engage
- Uniform Title
- Methuen drama engage.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: Postdramatic Theatre and the Political / by Jerome Carroll, Karen Jürs-Munby and Steve Giles -- Towards a Paradoxically Parallaxical Postdramatic Politics / by Brandon Woolf -- Performing Dialectics in an Age of Uncertainty, or Why Post-Brechtian Postdramatic / by David Barnett -- Political Fictions and Fictionalisations: History as Material for Postdramatic Theatre / by Mateusz Borowski and Malgorzata Sugiera -- A Future for Tragedy? Remarks on the Political and the Postdramatic / by Hans-Thies Lehmann -- Spectres of Subjectivity: On the Fetish of Identity in (Post-)Postdramatic Choreography / by Peter M. Boenisch -- Christoph Schlingensief's Rocky Dutschke, '68: A Reassessment of Activism in Theatre / by Antje Dietze -- Postdramatic Reality Theatre and Productive Insecurity: Destabilising Encounters with the Unfamiliar in Theatre from Sydney and Berlin / by Ulrike Garde and Meg Mumford -- Postdramatic Labour in The Builders Association's Alladeen / by Shannon Jackson -- Acting, disabled: Back to Back Theatre and the Politics of Appearance / by Theron Schmidt -- Parasitic Politics: Elfriede Jelinek's "Secondary Dramas" Abraumhalde and Faust In and Out / by Karen Jürs-Munby -- Phenomenology and the Postdramatic: A Case Study of three plays by Ewald Palmetshofer / by Jerome Carroll -- Performing the Collective. Heiner Müller's "Alone with these Bodies" ("AlleinmitdiesenLeibern") as a Piece for Postdramatic Theatre / by Michael Wood.
- ISBN
- 9781408184868
- 1408184869
- 9781408185704
- 1408185709
- 9781408185162
- 1408185164
- 9781408185889
- 1408185881
- LCCN
- ^^2013020298
- OCLC
- 852681807
- SCSB-12267747
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library