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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... signs. If performance seems to have taken on the properties of a fundamen- tal need, traversing all aspects of our lives, from the recesses of the un- conscious to the presentation of a self (or some facsimile of identity in a singular ...
... signs. If performance seems to have taken on the properties of a fundamen- tal need, traversing all aspects of our lives, from the recesses of the un- conscious to the presentation of a self (or some facsimile of identity in a singular ...
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... sign of its endurance but, in either the implaca- bility or mania of self-determination, an inviolable respect. The resisting body is the subject of performance, and always has been, even in conven- tional theater, even when the body is ...
... sign of its endurance but, in either the implaca- bility or mania of self-determination, an inviolable respect. The resisting body is the subject of performance, and always has been, even in conven- tional theater, even when the body is ...
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... sign but as an agency of the real — as Derrida had to concede , with almost tragically poignant resistance , at the end of his essay on Artaud's theater of cruelty and the closure of representation . What is at stake here is something ...
... sign but as an agency of the real — as Derrida had to concede , with almost tragically poignant resistance , at the end of his essay on Artaud's theater of cruelty and the closure of representation . What is at stake here is something ...
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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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