Certain fragments : contemporary performance and forced entertainment / Tim Etchells ; photographs by Hugo Glendinning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Etchells, Tim, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forced Entertainment (Theater company).

Experimental theater--Great Britain.

Experimental theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, it investigates the process of devising performance, theatre's interdisciplinary role, and the city's influence.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; A Decade of Forced Entertainment; On Risk and Investment; Play On: Process and Collaboration; On Documentation and Performance; Eight Fragments on Theatre and the City; Replaying the Tapes of the Twentieth Century: An Interview with Ron Vawter; On Performance and Technology; On Performance Writing; On Performance and Film: Tuning In; Repeat Forever: Body, Death, Performance, Fiction; Introduction; (Let the Water Run its Course) to the Sea that Made the Promise

Emanuelle Enchanted (or a Description of this World as if it were a Beautiful Place)Club of No Regrets; Speak Bitterness; Appendix; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-68862-8

1-134-68863-6

0-203-44963-0

0-203-26757-5

1-280-31885-6

9780203449639

OCLC:

560059364