Thinking through theatre and performance / edited by Maaike Bleeker, Adrian Kear, Joe Kelleher and Heike Roms.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bleeker, Maaike, editor.

Kear, Adrian, 1970- editor.

Kelleher, Joe, editor.

Roms, Heike, editor.

Series:

Thinking through theatre

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Philosophy.

Theater.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

xiii, 321 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.

Summary:

"Thinking Through Theatre and Performance presents a bold and innovative approach to the study of theatre and performance. Instead of topics, genres, histories or theories, the book starts with the questions that theatre and performance are uniquely capable of asking: How does theatre function as a place for seeing and hearing? How do not only bodies and voices but also objects and media perform? How do memories, emotions and ideas continue to do their work when the performance is over? And how can theatre and performance intervene in social, political and environmental structures and frameworks? Written by leading international scholars, each chapter of this volume is built around a key performance example, and detailed discussions introduce the methodologies and theories that help us understand how these performances are practices of enquiry into the world. Thinking through Theatre and Performance is essential for those involved in making, enjoying, critiquing and studying theatre, and will appeal to anyone who is interested in the questions that theatre and performance ask of themselves and of us"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Why study drama? / Joe Kelleher

What do performances do to spectators? / Maaike Bleeker

How can the theatre be fully accessible? / Colette Conroy

How does stage performance think through cultural convention? / Sean Metzger

How does theatre represent economic systems? / Louise Owen

What is black dance? What can it do? / Thomas DeFrantz

How does scenography think? / Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink

How does theatre think through things? / Mike Pearson

How does theatre think through incorporating media? / Steve Dixon

How does the trained body think? / Broderick Chow

How does theatre think through work? / Theron Schmidt

What is an intercultural exchange? / Miguel Escobar Varela

What is the impact of theatre and performance? / Sruti Bala

Does staging historical trauma reenact it? / Tavia Nyong'o

How does theatre think through politics? / Jazmin Badong Llana

How and why are performances documented? / Heike Roms

How can performance disrupt institutional spaces? / Dominic Johnson

How does theatre think through ecology? / Carl Lavery

How does choreography think "through" society? / Bojana Cvejič

How does theatricality legitimize the law? / Sophie Nield

How does theatre think through theatricality? / Adrian Kear.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Thinking through theatre and performance

ISBN:

9781472579614

1472579615

9781472579607

1472579607

OCLC:

1081339684