Surveys the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic theatre of the 1960s to the ironic postmodernism of the 1980s.
The first volume to provide a comprehensive overview of Jerzy Grotowski’s long and multi-faceted career.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Despite the problematic politics of cultural exchange in the theatre, interculturalism is not a one-sided process. Using the metaphor of the hourglass to discuss the transfer between source and target culture, Pavis asks what happens when the hourglass is turned upside down, when the `foreign’ culture speaks for itself.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
A polemical thinking-through of the whole concept of theatre as a ‘space’, and a politically motivated exploration of how, and where, that theatrical space meets the real world that surrounds and suffuses it.
How are hybrid and diasporic identities performed in increasingly diverse societies? How can we begin to think differently about theatrical flow across cultures?
Kalb weaves his impressive historical knowledge of theatre into detailed descriptions of marathon productions he has seen and studied.
An innovative compilation of seven highly acclaimed productions by key practitioners of non-playwright-driven theatre
This book is a kind donation by Natasha Davis