Performance Theory

Zusatztext 'Reading Performance Theory by Richard Schechner again! three decades after its first edition! is like meeting an old friend and finding out how much of him/her has been with you all along this way.'- Augusto Boal Informationen zum Autor One of contemporary theatre's most celebrated directors! he is also a world-renowned artist and scholar. Zusammenfassung This cogent and provocative compilation of essays is now a classic text for students of the emergent discipline of performance studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Author's Note; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The fan and the web; 1. Approaches; 2. Actuals; 3. Drama, script, theater, and performance; 4. From ritual to theater and back: the efficacy-entertainment braid; 5. Towards a poetics of performance; 6.Selective inattention; 7. Ethology and theater; 8. Magnitudes of performance; References; Index

Product details

• Authors: Schechner, Richard Schechner, Schechner Richard
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2015
• EAN: 9781138127913
• ISBN: 978-1-138-12791-3
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Routledge Classics; Routledge Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; The arts: general issues, PERFORMING ARTS / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, The arts: general topics