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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... play . Chasten- ing it may have been , but with every device of Alienation almost never as Brecht wanted . Out there in the void the image seemed existential . Or so it did back in San Francisco , in 1957 , when I staged Mother Courage ...
... play . Chasten- ing it may have been , but with every device of Alienation almost never as Brecht wanted . Out there in the void the image seemed existential . Or so it did back in San Francisco , in 1957 , when I staged Mother Courage ...
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... plays by Brecht , Sean O'Casey , and Arthur Miller , all of them on the left , sufficiently so that we developed a considerable follow- ing among the labor unions and with its newspaper , The People's World , giving us rave reviews ...
... plays by Brecht , Sean O'Casey , and Arthur Miller , all of them on the left , sufficiently so that we developed a considerable follow- ing among the labor unions and with its newspaper , The People's World , giving us rave reviews ...
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... plays . It was these that paid the bills for our more controversial repertoire . With the onerous task of keeping us ... play called Proof — about fa- ther and daughter mathematicians — began with the sentence , “ Have you noticed how ...
... plays . It was these that paid the bills for our more controversial repertoire . With the onerous task of keeping us ... play called Proof — about fa- ther and daughter mathematicians — began with the sentence , “ Have you noticed how ...
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... plays was also a productive ungrounding, thus energizing my own critique. If I avoided, for the most part, writing about American drama, there are belated essays here on O'Neill and Williams (I have written about Miller elsewhere), and ...
... plays was also a productive ungrounding, thus energizing my own critique. If I avoided, for the most part, writing about American drama, there are belated essays here on O'Neill and Williams (I have written about Miller elsewhere), and ...
Page xxi
... plays — after completing a degree at NYU in chemical engineering , with which I fully expected to continue . I won't ... play- writing , with the fervor of an aesthetic somewhat ahead of itself , is not included here , but many years ...
... plays — after completing a degree at NYU in chemical engineering , with which I fully expected to continue . I won't ... play- writing , with the fervor of an aesthetic somewhat ahead of itself , is not included here , but many years ...
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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