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On Spectatorship - An Approach To Contemporary Spanish Theatre

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 This volume should be understood in the context of the "postdramatic" and "postspectacular" paradigms that have questioned traditional concepts regarding the representation and the role of the spectator in the creation of meaning and that have also emphasized the importance of performativity as a strategy enabling new scenic perspectives. It therefore dealswith a new "expansive" textuality that relates to the "social turn" in theatrical and artistic practices, embodied in the diffusion of interventionist, collaborative, dialogical or participative forms. These dissonant and anti-hegemonic forms can be located in the civic commitment that has characterized the Spanish stage in recent years. In this volume, the reader will find discussions of the most important figures of recent Spanish theatre, i.e. writers and companies whose work has contributed decisively to the reconfiguration of the role of the spectator, , including Los Torreznos, Angélica Liddell, Roger Bernat, La Ribot, Antonio Fernández Lera, Rodrigo García, El Canto de la Cabra, Laila Ripoll, Mariano Llorente, Andrés Lima, Pablo Remón, Álex Rigola, La Fura dels Baus, and A Panadaría.
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Afterlife Of The Theatre Of The Absurd - The Avant-Garde, Spectatorship, And Psychoanalysis

by Lara Cox

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 In 1961, Martin Esslin named a body of plays that lacked plot, character depth, and details of time and space the "Theatre of the Absurd". Esslin explained that this type of theatre, minimalist in the extreme, constituted a response to the existential crisis of Europe, which was in the midst of recovering from World War II. But the fact that this body of theatre lacked details of time and space means that we may break the ties that anchor the Theatre of the Absurd irremediably to the historical context of post-World War II Europe. How can the Theatre of the Absurd speak meaningfully to us in the twenty-first century? This book explores this question by combining the avant-garde that Martin Esslin named in 1961 in his signature work The Theatre of the Absurd with gender studies, queer theory, and psychoanalysis, and avant-garde studies. The Theatre of the Absurd is capable of subverting post-millennial institutions and ideologies, including the Prison Industrial Complex and the Wests domination of the Islamic world in a post-9/11 era.
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Contemporary Irish Theatre - Transnational Practices

by Kao Wei H.

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 This monograph is one of the first to examine a collection of Irish plays from a transnational perspective in todays era of globalization. The works dealt with in this study dramatize how foreign cultures are integrated into contemporary Ireland. In addition, they focus on the experiences of immigrants and marginalized people living on the fringes of Irish society. The aim of this book is therefore two-fold: first, it highlights how specific theatrical productions reflect the global factors at work in modern Ireland; second, it seeks to document how Irish dramatists exert a profound impact on theatre practitioners from non-English speaking countries and enrich their stage aesthetics. Accordingly, the works discussed in this book have not been authored by Irish playwrights only. They are set in the Middle East, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, the UK, and the USA. This monograph concentrates both on canonical and established playwrights, such as Dion Boucicault, Edward Harrigan, Eugene ONeill, Sean OCasey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, Frank McGuinness, Sebastian Barry, Tom Murphy, Marina Carr, and on lesser-known writers, including Jimmy Murphy, Dolores Walshe, Damian Smyth, Colin Teevan, among others.
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India - Contemporary Photography And New Media Art

by Fotofest International

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« Ô Dieu Jusques À Quand ? » - Le Traumatisme Des Guerres De Religion Dans La Tragédie Française De 1562 À 1610

by Inès Zahra

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 Le traumatisme est aujourdhui un paradigme essentiel dans la lecture et lécriture de lHistoire. Depuis la Deuxième Guerre mondiale et les procès de Nuremberg, qui débouchèrent sur la notion dimprescriptibilité des crimes, notre rapport au temps sest transformé. Le passé sest imposé au présent, et la mémoire, jadis décrié e, sest peu à peu hissée au rang de véritable devoir. Or, si aujourdhui, dans les contextes daprès-catastrophe, loubli est ce contre quoi il convient de lutter, il nen a pas toujours été ainsi. Dans la France des guerres de Religion, celui-ci nétait en effet pas le mal, mais la thérapeutique politique. Face à la rupture de lunité religieuse qui engendra un déferlement de violence inouï , confrontant pour la première fois la conscience chrétienne à la mort de masse, la monarchie tentera, quarante ans durant, dabolir la mémoire des exactions commises pendant les guerres. Mais le théâtre tragique, qui renaît en France précisément au moment où éclatent les conflits civils, semble hanté par lactualité terrible. Quelle place ce théâtre fait-il à la mémoire des troubles ? Comment celle-ci sy exprime-t-elle, sy élabore-t-elle ? Que font les dramaturges de la violence juste passée et à quelles fins ? Dans ce livre, Inès Zahra examine, à laune des Trauma studies, courant théorique qui questionne la manière dont le passé violent affecte le présent, les rapports quentretiennent la tragédie franç aise de la fin du XVIe et du début du XVIIe siècles et la mémoire des guerres civiles.
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Danse Et Spectacle Vivant - Réflexion Critique Sur La Construction Des Savoirs

by Elodie Verlinden

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 Les pratiques contemporaines, exogènes et plus anciennes rendent les définitions de la danse labiles. Cet ouvrage a pour objectif premier de relire les discours scientifiques sur la danse à travers quelques démarches considérées comme illustratives dune discipline : les modes de représentation de Foster ; les formes de (re)présentation de Hanna ; le lecteur modèle dEco ; les questionnaires de Pavis, dHelbo et dUbersfeld ; la souspartition et la pré-expressivité de Barba ; le Rasaesthetics de Schechner ; lorchésalité de Bernard, etc. Ce parcours a pour vocation seconde dinterroger les modes de construction de lobjet danse au sein des études en arts du spectacle vivant en attirant lattention sur des paramètres généralement masqués par des approches globalisantes ou non adaptées, tels que lénergie, lintention, la pulsion auto-affective, les champs sensoriels, les techniques extra-quotidiennes. Lapproche défamiliarisante aborde des modélisations en perspective par rapport à leur objet, et conduit non seulement à saisir de manière critique les regards sur la danse mais à élaborer un modèle propre qui pose la question de lidentité et des processus énonciatifs de la danse au sein du paradigme des arts du spectacle vivant.
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Latinx Reception Of Greek Tragic Myth: Healing (And) Radical Politics

by Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou

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Ludwig Tiecks "Puss-In-Boots" And Theater Of The Absurd - A Commentated Bilingual Edition

by Gerald Gillespie

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 This book focuses on the precursor role of Ludwig Tieck in the Romantic revolution in drama which is seen in his fantastic comedy Puss-in-Boots (1797), a precocious benign forerunner of theatre of the absurd. Tieckâ€™s contribution is examined in the light of key dramatists of several strands of modernism.
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Enacting Nature - Ecocritical Perspectives On Indigenous Performance

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 This volume explores the multi-faceted semantics of ecology in contemporary Indigenous theater and performance. It focuses on the ways in which Indigenous playwrights from North America and Oceania depict the human link with Nature in todayâ€™s global age.
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New Territories - Theatre, Drama, And Performance In Post-Apartheid South Africa

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 In this critical anthology of essays and interviews, some of the world's most respected scholars and practitioners writing and working in the area of South African theatre today share their detailed examinations and insights on the complex and contradictory context of Post-apartheid society.
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To Watch Theatre - Essays On Genre And Corporeality

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Shakespeare And Canada - Essays On Production, Translation, And Adaptation

by Ric Knowles

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View From Inside - Contemporary Arab Photography, Video And Mixed Media Art

by Claude W. Sui, Mona Khazindar e Samer Mohad

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 Shows the works of fifty leading Arab artists from fourteen countries. This title covers the appearance of photography in the Middle East and North Africa in the mid - nineteenth century th rough photography's evolution as an integral part of the contemporary Arab art world.
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Theatres In The Round - Multi-Ethnic, Indigenous, And Intertextual Dialogues In Drama

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 A collection of essays explores some of the avenues along which the field of comparative drama studies could be reconfigured at the dawn of the twenty-first century. It offers a comparative analysis of theatre across national and linguistic boundaries while simultaneously acknowledging newer trends in ethnic studies.
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Signatures Of The Past - Cultural Memory In Contemporary Anglophone North American Drama

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Unstable Ground - Performance And The Politics Of Place

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Contemporary Irish Theatre - Transnational Practices

by Kao Wei H.

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 Examining a collection of Irish plays, this book highlights how specific theatrical productions reflect the global factors at work in modern Ireland. Also, it seeks to document how Irish dramatists exert an impact on theatre practitioners from non-English speaking countries and enrich their stage aesthetics.
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Ludwig Tieckâ€™S "Puss-In-Boots" And Theater Of The Absurd - A Commentated Bilingual Edition

by Gerald Gillespie

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 This book focuses on the precursor role of Ludwig Tieck in the Romantic revolution in drama which is seen in his fantastic comedy Puss-in-Boots (1797), a precocious benign forerunner of theatre of the absurd. Tieckâ€™s contribution is examined in the light of key dramatists of several strands of modernism.
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Codifying The National Self - Spectators, Actors And The American Dramatic Text

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 Theater has always been the site of visionary hopes for a reformed national future and a space for propagating ideas, both cultural and political, and such a conceptualization of the histrionic art is all the more valuable in the post-9/11 era. The essays in this volume address the concept of «Americanness» and the perceptions of the «alien» as ethnic, class or gendered minorities as dealt with in the work of American playwrights from Anna Cora Mowatt, through Rachel Crothers or Susan Glaspell, and on to Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Nilo Cruz or Wallace Shawn. The authors of the essays come from a multi-national university background that includes the United States, the United Arab Emirates and various countries of the European Community. In recognition of the multiple components of drama, the essays for the volume were selected in order to exemplify different aspects and theories of theater studies: the playwright, the play, the audience and the actor are all examined as part of the theatrical experience that serves to formulate American national identity.
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Theatres In The Round - Multi-Ethnic, Indigenous, And Intertextual Dialogues In Drama

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 This collection of essays explores some of the avenues along which the field of comparative drama studies could be reconfigured at the dawn of the twenty-first century. It offers a comparative analysis of theatre across national and linguistic boundaries while simultaneously acknowledging newer trends in ethnic studies. Indeed, the contributors to this critical anthology productively combine traditional comparative literature methodologies with performance approaches and postcolonial perspectives. In this way, they shed new light on the intertextual, multi-ethnic, and cross-cultural dialogues linking theatrical traditions from Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific region. This books broad scope bears testimony to the fact that transnational studies can fruitfully illuminate the multiple dramatic voices of our increasingly globalized age.
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Labyrinth Of Hybridities - Avatars Of Oneillian Realism In Multi-Ethnic American Drama (1972-2003)

by Marc Maufort

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 Taking its cue from Eugene ONeills questioning of «faithful realism», voiced by Edmund Tyrone in Long Days Journey into Night, this book examines the distant legacy of the Irish American playwright in contemporary multiethnic drama in the U.S. It explores the labyrinth of formal devices through which African American, Latina/o, First Nations, and Asian American dramatists have unconsciously reinterpreted ONeills questioning of mimesis. In their works, hybridizations of stage realism function as aesthetic celebrations of the spiritual potentialities of cultural in-betweenness. This volume provides detailed analyses of over forty plays authored by such key artists as August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, José Rivera, Cherríe Moraga, Hanay Geiogamah, Diane Glancy, David Henry Hwang, and Chay Yew, to give only a few prominent examples. All in all, Labyrinth of Hybridities invites its readers to reassess the cross-cultural patterns characterizing the history of twentieth century American drama.

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