Theatre and Everyday Life - An Ethics of Performance

Informationen zum Autor Alan Read Klappentext Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the experience of everyday life. It is a theatre which defines itself in terms of people and places rather than the idealised empty space of avant garde performance. Read examines the relationship between an ethics of performance, a politics of place and a poetics of the urban environment. His book is a persuasive demand for a critical theory of theatre which is as mentally supple as theatre is physically versatile. Zusammenfassung Read examines the relationship between an ethics of performance, a politics of place and a poetics of the urban environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part I Practice Criticism Quotidian 1. Lay theatre 2. Regarding theatre 3. Everyday life Part 2 Nature Theatre Culture 4. Orientation: Space and place 5. Accretion: Earth and depth 6. Inspiration: Air and breath 7. Circulation: Water and hygiene 8. Combustion: Fire and safety Notes and References Index

Product details

• Authors: Alan Read, Read Alan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.06.1995
• EAN: 9780415069410
• ISBN: 978-0-415-06941-0
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; The arts: general issues, PERFORMING ARTS / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Theatre Studies, Performance Art, The arts: general topics