European performative theatre : the issues, problems, and techniques of crucial masterpieces / Annamaria Cascetta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cascetta, Annamaria, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental theater--Europe--History--20th century.

Experimental theater.

Experimental drama.

History.

Europe.

Experimental theater--Europe--History--21st century.

Experimental drama--20th century--History and criticism.

Experimental drama--21st century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 294 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Contents:

The human journey: Odyssey by Robert Wilson

The human journey inside the human mind and brain: from Je suis un phénomène to The Valley of Astonishment by Peter Brook

Confronting tradition: are Christ and Aeschylus no longer relevant? The Orestea and Sul concetto di volto nel figlio di Dio by Romeo Castellucci

Starting again from humanity or drowning in nothingness? Golgota Picnic by Rodrigo Garcia

(by Francesco Marzano and Anna Castoldi) How to live together? From militarism and authoritarianism to the weapon of joy in Gaudeamus by Lev Dodin

A school of democracy for an ever-changing identity: Ça ira by Joël Pommerat and The Blind Poet by Jan Lauwers

Real and virtual spaces: Migration, artificiality and the city in Bodenprobe Kazachstan and Remote Milan by Rimini Protokoll

Oh What a Lovely War by Joan Littlewood: the prophecy of a pioneer artist

The dignity of the body regained: MDLSX by Motus and Silvia Casagrande and Bestie di scena by Emma Dante

Beauty and truth: the way to salvation by Pippo Delbono in Orchidee and Vangelo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Cascetta, Annamaria, author. European performative theatre

ISBN:

9780367137267

0367137267

OCLC:

1085972441