Theatre And Death
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Author | : Mischa Twitchin |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2016-10-20 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1137478721 |
This book is concerned with such questions as the following: What is the life of the past in the present? How might “the theatre of death” and “the uncanny in mimesis” allow us to conceive of the afterlife of a supposedly ephemeral art practice? How might a theatrical iconology engage with such fundamental social relations as those between the living and the dead? Distinct from the dominant expectation that actors should appear life-like onstage, why is it that some theatre artists – from Craig to Castellucci – have conceived of the actor in the image of the dead? Furthermore, how might an iconology of the actor allow us to imagine the afterlife of an apparently ephemeral art practice? This book explores such questions through the implications of the twofold analogy proposed in its very title: as theatre is to the uncanny, so death is to mimesis; and as theatre is to mimesis, so death is to the uncanny. Walter Benjamin once observed that: “The point at issue in the theatre today can be more accurately defined in relation to the stage than to the play. It concerns the filling-in of the orchestra pit. The abyss which separates the actors from the audience like the dead from the living...” If the relation between the living and the dead can be thought of in terms of an analogy with ancient theatre, how might avant-garde theatre be thought of in terms of this same relation “today”?
Author | : Jennifer Woodward |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0851157041 |
English royal funeral ceremony from Mary, Queen of Scots to James I gives fascinating insight into the relationship between power and ritual at the renaissance court.
Author | : Karoline Gritzner |
Publisher | : Univ of Hertfordshire Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781902806921 |
The essays brought together in this collection offer new perspectives on the eros/death relation in a wide selection of dramatic texts, theatrical practices and cultural performances.
Author | : Nat Brandt |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2006-08-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 080932721X |
A blow-by-blow account of the deadliest fire in American history retraces the final days of the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago, a supposedly indestructible building that burned killing more than six hundred people.
Author | : Howard Barker |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780415349864 |
The latest collection of Barker's philosophical musings on theatre, this volume includes speculations, deductions, prose poems & poetic apercus, which cast a unique light on the nature of tragedy, eroticism, love & theatre.
Author | : Mark Robson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2019-05-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1350315958 |
This new title in the Theatre And series confronts the complex relationship between theatre and death. Taking the position that all humans need to 'live' with the reality of death, Mark Robson draws on a range of examples, from Greek theatre to contemporary practitioners, in order to testify to the potency of both theatre and death in contemporary culture. Striking and thought-provoking, this book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of theatre and performance, or English literature students with an interest in tragedy.
Author | : Александр Сухово-Кобылин |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9783718656943 |
Sukhovo-Kobylin's "Trilogy - Krechinshy's Wedding, The Case"and "The Death of Tarelkin" represent the sole literary legacy of their aristocratic author whose involvement in a sensational murder case became one of the great scandals of mid-19th century Russian society. Out of the drama of his own life, Sukhovo-Kobylin fashioned a trilogy of plays remarkable for the acidity of their satire against the tsarist bureaucracy and police. It is not only for their pungent satire that the plays have continued to attract attention ever since. They are, above all, splendidly theatrical and encompass not one but several different traditions of theatre from the "well-made play" of Scribe to the absurd comedy of Gogol. "As for sheer stagecraft," writes Price D.S. Mirsky in his "A History of Russian Literature," "they have no rivals in Russian literary drama." Harold B. Segel is Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York. He is the author of ten books and numer
Author | : Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Evreinov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rob Urbinati |
Publisher | : Samuel French, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780573700934 |
Edward Bennett, a playwright, and his wife Sorel Bennett, an actress, flee London and head to Cookham after a disastrous opening night. But various guests arrive unexpectedly - a conservative politician, a fiery socialist, a nearsighted ingenue, a zany modern dancer - each with a long-held secret. When one of the guests is murdered, it's left to Bridgit, the feisty Irish maid with a macabre interest in homicide, to solve the crime.
Author | : Thomas Meehan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Death (Personification) |
ISBN | : 9780573704055 |
"In Death Takes a Holiday, it's just after World War I and the loneliest of souls arrives at an Italian villa disguised as a handsome young Prince, and for the first time experiences the joys and heartbreaks of life. The show began as an Alberto Casella play from the 1920s that was made into a much-loved 1934 film. The original film was remade in 1998 as Meet Joe Black."--Page 4 of cover.