Theatre and event : staging the European century / Adrian Kear.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kear, Adrian, 1970-

Series:

Studies in international performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Europe--History--21st century.

Theater.

Theater--Production and direction--Europe--History--21st century.

Theater--Production and direction.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xiii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Theatre and Event: Staging the European Century, examines how, in these first decades of the twenty-first century, contemporary European theatre-makers have sought to consider the disastrous events of the twentieth century as the 'unfinished business' of the contemporary. Kear argues that by thinking through the logic of the event, and the theatre event especially, contemporary performance practice enables an affective interrogation of 'the event' of the European century. Examining the work of leading theatre companies, Theatre and Event: Staging the European Century offers detailed expositions and engaged analyses of key works by Needcompany (Belgium), Jaunais Rigas Teatris (Latvia), Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (Italy), National Theatre Wales (UK), and Studios Kabako (France/Democratic Republic of the Congo). This book offers an original conception of the theatre event as an event which exists in relation to, and performatively historicises, other 'events', requiring a critical and creative practice of spectatorship to animate its political affects. Book jacket.

Contents:

Song of the century: Jan Lauwers and Needcompany's Sad face/happy face trilogy

Naming the event: Alvis Hermanis and Juanais Regas tetrises Sonja

Falling into history: Romeo Castellucci and Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio's Tragedia endogonidia and Divina commedia

Theatre in the open: Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes' The Persians and Coriolan/US, National Theatre Wales

De-creating the step of the world: Faustin Linyekula and Studios Kabako's La création du monde 1923-2012, Pour en finir avec Bérénice, and more more more, future

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-231) and index.

ISBN:

9780230008083

0230008089

OCLC:

852224932