The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000Spanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross-reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau--his directing, writing, and criticism--has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory. |
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Page xv
... audience in helicopters , in the course of which it also describes the various performance sites ( sometimes three or more at once ) in which our work occurred , as well as the cultural atmosphere of the watery twin - peaked city ...
... audience in helicopters , in the course of which it also describes the various performance sites ( sometimes three or more at once ) in which our work occurred , as well as the cultural atmosphere of the watery twin - peaked city ...
Page xviii
... audience . “ If the audience is not altogether an absence , it is by no means a reliable presence , ” I wrote in the opening paragraph of xviii Introduction.
... audience . “ If the audience is not altogether an absence , it is by no means a reliable presence , ” I wrote in the opening paragraph of xviii Introduction.
Page xix
... Audience , 11 with a lasting distrust of easy sentiment in the facsimile of a social body whose apparent unity is ... audiences with the force of in- tellect . ” 12 Welcome as this may be , it is not merely the IQ of characters I had in ...
... Audience , 11 with a lasting distrust of easy sentiment in the facsimile of a social body whose apparent unity is ... audiences with the force of in- tellect . ” 12 Welcome as this may be , it is not merely the IQ of characters I had in ...
Page xxiii
... Audience, the essay goes on to consider the anthropological turn that has radically widened the parameters of performance studies, from the play that was once the thing to almost any kind of event or aspect of behavior, commonplace or ...
... Audience, the essay goes on to consider the anthropological turn that has radically widened the parameters of performance studies, from the play that was once the thing to almost any kind of event or aspect of behavior, commonplace or ...
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... audience they would be members of , in any public sense ( with scale ) , is as indeterminate as meaning itself in the metaphysical slapstick of Beckett . Speaking of cultural materialism , it was one of its tutelary figures , Raymond ...
... audience they would be members of , in any public sense ( with scale ) , is as indeterminate as meaning itself in the metaphysical slapstick of Beckett . Speaking of cultural materialism , it was one of its tutelary figures , Raymond ...
Contents
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2 The Impossible Takes a Little Time | 18 |
3 Spacing Out in the American Theater | 37 |
Rehearsing the Resistance | 53 |
5 A Dove in My Chimney | 62 |
An Analytic Scenario | 70 |
The Grail of the Voice | 118 |
Chills and Fever Mourning and the Vanities of the Sublime | 132 |
13 Readymade Desire | 199 |
From Tango Palace to Mud | 206 |
The Group Idea and Its Legacy | 215 |
New Music and Theater | 230 |
17 FlatOut Vision | 246 |
Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher | 265 |
Revising the Abyss | 281 |
The Insane Root | 307 |
9 The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity | 137 |
Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America | 157 |
Educating the American Theater | 181 |
12 The Pipe Dreams of ONeill in the Age of Deconstruction | 189 |
Notes | 321 |
Previous Publications | 335 |
Index | 337 |
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