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Performing The Testimonial - Rethinking Verbatim Dramaturgies

by Amanda Stuart Fisher

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 Performing the testimonial offers a new critical engagement with verbatim and testimonial theatre that draws on an analysis of a number of international contemporary verbatim and testimonial plays. Moving beyond discourses of the real, the book argues that testimonial theatre engages in acts of truth telling, performing new modes of witnessing. -- .
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Beautiful Doom - The Work Of Dennis Kelly On Stage And Screen

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 The first multi-authored volume on the work of contemporary British writer Dennis Kelly, Beautiful Doom examines the full range of his work for stage and screen, from new writing to adaptations of classic playtexts, musical theatre, and original works for television. -- .
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Theatre, Activism, Subjectivity - Searching For The Left In A Fragmented World

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 In modern times of political confusion, when Leftist agendas and struggles often collapse or become appropriated by Right, this book stress the necessity of recovering the Leftist ethos of solidarity, social justice, and care for the commons. -- .
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Foucaultâ€™S Theatres

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 This book opens up innovative ways of reading philosophy â€˜theatricallyâ€™, contributing to a new articulation of theatre and its relation to critical thought. -- .
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Science In Performance - Theatre And The Politics Of Engagement

by Simon Parry

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 This book explores how theatre engages with contemporary scientific themes in the twenty-first century. It looks at how and why different forms of performance, from the Broadway musical to experimental and educational theatres, tackles a wide range of scientific themes, including artificial intelligence, genetics and climate change. -- .
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Performing The Testimonial - Rethinking Verbatim Dramaturgies

by Amanda Stuart Fisher

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 Performing the testimonial offers a new critical engagement with verbatim and testimonial theatre that draws on an analysis of a number of international contemporary verbatim and testimonial plays. Moving beyond discourses of the real, the book argues that testimonial theatre engages in acts of truth telling, performing new modes of witnessing. -- .
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Robert Lepage'S Original Stage Productions - Making Theatre Global

by Karen Fricker

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 This book calls upon globalisation, queer, cinema, and affect studies to explore key Robert Lepage productions from 1984 to 2008, analysing the systems through which his work is produced and disseminated. -- .
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After '89 - Polish Theatre And The Political

by Bryce Lease

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 This book provides an exceptional introduction to Polish theatre since the fall of communism, exploring how theatre goes beyond norms and nationalistic concepts to intersect with politics, feminism, queer identities, the rise in anti-Semitism, ethnicities and history. -- .
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Unlimited Action - The Performance Of Extremity In The 1970s

by Dominic Johnson

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 Extremity might suggest violence, pornography, criminality, misanthropy, danger, recklessness, eccentricity or obscurantism. How has art exceeded its own example through performance art? How have artists used performance to question and overextend the limits of form in the 1970s? And with what effects? -- .
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Death In Modern Theatre - Stages Of Mortality

by Adrian Curtin

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 This book analyses representations of death and dying in modern Western theatre from the late nineteenth century onward, examining how and why historically informed conceptions of mortality are dramatized and staged. -- .
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Directing Scenes And Senses - The Thinking Of Regie

by Peter Boenisch

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 As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs their impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie, the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts. -- .
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After '89 - Polish Theatre And The Political

by Bryce Lease

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 This book provides an exceptional introduction to Polish theatre since the fall of communism, exploring how theatre goes beyond norms and nationalistic concepts to intersect with politics, feminism, queer identities, the rise in anti-Semitism, ethnicities and history. -- .
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Directing Scenes And Senses - The Thinking Of Regie

by Peter Boenisch

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 As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs their impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie, the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts. -- .
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Not Magic But Work - An Ethnographic Account Of A Rehearsal Process

by Gay Mcauley

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 Newly available in paperback, this is a detailed description of the intensive work process involved in the making of Toy Symphony, a play by Michael Gow, directed by Neil Armfield and brought to the stage for the first time in December 2007 by Company B at the Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney. Drawing on years of research McAuley rejects simplistic
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The Politics Of Jean Genet'S Late Theatre - Spaces Of Revolution

by Carl Lavery

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 "First published by Manchester University Press in hardback in 2010"--title page verso
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Not Magic But Work - An Ethnographic Account Of A Rehearsal Process

by Gay Mcauley

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 This text is a detailed description of the intensive work process involved in the making of 'Toy Symphony', a new play by Michael Gow, directed by Neil Armfield and brought to the stage for the first time in December 2007 by Company B at the Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney.
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Performance In A Time Of Terror - Critical Mimesis And The Age Of Uncertainty

by Jenny Hughes

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 This book explores the ways in which performance has given shape and form to wars on terror past and present, focusing on examples of performed violence from Northern Ireland and Iraq. It also investigates how theatre-makers and performance activists have resisited violence in times of terror.a. -- .
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Performing Presence - Between The Live And The Simulated

by Gabriella Giannachi e Nick Kaye

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 *Performing Presence: Between the Live and the Simulated* proposes that the advent of new media forms, and the increasing integration of contemporary performance and media has generated new engagements, practices and understandings of presence.
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The Paris Jigsaw - Internationalism And The City'S Stages

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 This collection of essays examines the creation and development of communities of actors, directors, designers and playwrights in Paris over the past 30 years, showing how the willingness of the city to welcome international influences has enriched its creative life.
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Trans-Global Readings - Crossing Theatrical Boundaries

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 Gathers the voices of unique artists from the worlds of theatre, music and performance to discuss process and the making of interdisciplinary work. -- .
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Making Contemporary Theatre - International Rehearsal Processes

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 Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. The book opens with an introductory chapter which contextualises recent trends in approaches to theatre-making. In the ensuing eleven chapters, eleven different writer-observers describe, contextualise and analyse the theatr
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World Stages, Local Audiences - Essays On Performance, Place And Politics

by Peter Dickinson

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 This book argues that local performance events offer a way to read the world, and an opportunity to remake that world, helping to foster a global political consciousness. Surveying a wide array of theatre, dance, performance and visual art, as well as sporting contests, marriage ceremonies human rights protests, even acts of extreme weather. -- .
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The Politics Of Jean Genet'S Late Theatre - Spaces Of Revolution

by Carl Lavery

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 Situates Jean Genet's theatre within the wider social, spatial and political contexts of France in the 1950s and 1960s. This book argues that his theory and practice of political theatre have more in common with the affirmative ideas of thinkers such as Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Ranciere and Alain Badiou.
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Theatre In Crisis? - Performance Manifestoes For A New Century

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 This wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theatre practice, economics, and issues related to identity, politics, and technology contains a snapshot dissection of where theatre is, where it has been and where it might be going.
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