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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... talk — the only one about performance as we know it from the theater — that referred to high- pressure moments in practice or rehearsal when , doing things you are al- most ashamed of to bring out a surpassing performance , coaching and ...
... talk — the only one about performance as we know it from the theater — that referred to high- pressure moments in practice or rehearsal when , doing things you are al- most ashamed of to bring out a surpassing performance , coaching and ...
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... talking about here , off the animus of the essay , is an eruption of the aesthetic that validates it again . What still compels me in art is a logic of unsettled feeling , unsusceptible to any coding , at least for the historical moment ...
... talking about here , off the animus of the essay , is an eruption of the aesthetic that validates it again . What still compels me in art is a logic of unsettled feeling , unsusceptible to any coding , at least for the historical moment ...
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... talk at an international symposium on O'Neill in 1988, the centennial year of his birth, at Hosei University, Tokyo ... talks at the AETA (American Educational Theater Association ) and its current avatar , the ATHE ( xx Introduction.
... talk at an international symposium on O'Neill in 1988, the centennial year of his birth, at Hosei University, Tokyo ... talks at the AETA (American Educational Theater Association ) and its current avatar , the ATHE ( xx Introduction.
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... talk was subtitled “ Educating the American Theater . ” That text is here , the aesthetic fervor undiminished but with more sophistica- tion , in the scoring of long reflections on the vicissitudes of the Ameri- can theater and , beyond ...
... talk was subtitled “ Educating the American Theater . ” That text is here , the aesthetic fervor undiminished but with more sophistica- tion , in the scoring of long reflections on the vicissitudes of the Ameri- can theater and , beyond ...
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... talk of collectivity during the thirties—nothing like it persisted into the forties, and cer- tainly not for the sake of theater, so that the Group felt isolated, vulner- able, unnourished by other groups. While the group idea was ...
... talk of collectivity during the thirties—nothing like it persisted into the forties, and cer- tainly not for the sake of theater, so that the Group felt isolated, vulner- able, unnourished by other groups. While the group idea was ...
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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