Theatre and everyday life : an ethics of performance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Read, Alan, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater and society.

Theater--Philosophy.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 1995, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the experience of everyday life. It is a theatre which defines itself in terms of people and places rather than the idealised empty space of avant garde performance.Read examines the relationship between an ethics of performance, a politics of place and a poetics of the urban environment. His book is a persuasive demand for a critical theory of

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; LAY THEATRE; REGARDING THEATRE; EVERYDAY LIFE; ORIENTATION: SPACE AND PLACE; ACCRETION: EARTH AND DEPTH; INSPIRATION: AIR AND BREATH; CIRCULATION: WATER AND HYGIENE; COMBUSTION: FIRE AND SAFETY; Notes and References; Index

Notes:

First published in paperback: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-134-91458-X

1-134-91459-8

1-138-14708-7

1-280-04564-7

0-203-35946-1

9780203359464

OCLC:

56580791