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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... the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher 19. “Set Me Where You Stand” 281 Revising the Abyss 20. Limits of Performance 307 The Insane Root Notes 321 Previous Publications 335 Index 337 Introduction These essays span just about a quarter of a.
... the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher 19. “Set Me Where You Stand” 281 Revising the Abyss 20. Limits of Performance 307 The Insane Root Notes 321 Previous Publications 335 Index 337 Introduction These essays span just about a quarter of a.
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... limit haunts my previous books , and which for better or worse , at least in certain passages , will be ghosting this one too . As for “ Flat - Out Vision , ” which I wrote for a conference on photog- raphy put together by film ...
... limit haunts my previous books , and which for better or worse , at least in certain passages , will be ghosting this one too . As for “ Flat - Out Vision , ” which I wrote for a conference on photog- raphy put together by film ...
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... limit never seen before. How did it get there? by what energy or demiurge, will or inspiration? and if not brainless, by what even conceived? Whatever one wants to call it, that indescribable power, I sure as hell know it when I see it ...
... limit never seen before. How did it get there? by what energy or demiurge, will or inspiration? and if not brainless, by what even conceived? Whatever one wants to call it, that indescribable power, I sure as hell know it when I see it ...
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... Limits of Performance : Sports , Medi- cine , and the Humanities , ” whose international participants were world- class athletes ( with Olympic medals ) and world - class surgeons ( one with a Nobel Prize ) , a sports clinician from ...
... Limits of Performance : Sports , Medi- cine , and the Humanities , ” whose international participants were world- class athletes ( with Olympic medals ) and world - class surgeons ( one with a Nobel Prize ) , a sports clinician from ...
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... limit, too painful to be watched, out of sight but not of mind (something dripping in the head), really impossible to perform, is almost embarrassed to be theater. And what about its politics? “Use your head, use your 12 Afterthought ...
... limit, too painful to be watched, out of sight but not of mind (something dripping in the head), really impossible to perform, is almost embarrassed to be theater. And what about its politics? “Use your head, use your 12 Afterthought ...
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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