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Zusatztext 'Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure illuminates a vital arena of contemporary art practice with a rare combination of rigor! respect! and insight.' - Una Chaudhuri! New York University'A crucial intervention into the politics of contemporary performance. It combines theoretical sophistication with a richly detailed engagmement with the experience of performance.' - Nicholas Ridout! Queen Mary! University of London'Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure represents a compelling and stimulating addition to current debates surrounding the turn against virtuosity and the appropriation of signs of amateurism in contemporary western experimental theatre and Live Art. This is the first monograph dedicated to the subject of failure in contemporary experimental performance! and its investigation is detailed and nuanced. This book will provide an invaluable resource for theatre-makers! scholars! and critics as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students studying experimental performance and Live Art.' - Sarah Gorman! Contemporary Theatre Review Informationen zum Autor Sara Jane Bailes is a theatre-maker and Senior Lecturer in Performance Studies at the University of Sussex. She teaches experimental theatre and the conversation between art practice and ideology. Klappentext What does it mean to 'fail' in performance? Or, what do performances founded upon the collapse of their own invention illuminate that other modes of theatre usually aim to conceal? Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure begins by approaching Samuel Beckett's dramatic disposition where failure is perceived as a deliberate and effective poetics. Sara Jane Bailes extends such strategies through theoretical and archival modes of investigation in an enlightening analysis. This book offers case studies of acclaimed UK and US experimental theatre companies Forced Entertainment, Elevator Repair Service and Goat Island as exemplars of performance as failure. The author uses detailed rehearsal and performance analysis to engage critical theory and contextualise avant garde practice. The result is an incisive and original critique of contemporary theatre that makes essential reading for practitioners, scholars and students of Theatre and Performance Studies. Zusammenfassung What does it mean to "fail" in performance, or more accurately, to stage failure in performance? What do performances that are founded upon the collapse of their own invention illuminate that other modes of theatre usually conceal? This book examines these questions through theoretical and archival modes of investigation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Failure and Representation 2. World(s) after a Different Image: Marxism, Slapstick, Punk 3. Profane Illumination: Theatre and Forced Entertainment 4. News from Nowhere: Goat Island Performance Group 5. Dislocations of Practice: Elevator Repair Service 6. Afterword ...
