Critically engaging with examples of stage combat, rape, terrorism, wrestling and historical re-enactments, Nevitt argues that studying violence through theatre can be part of a desire to create a more peaceful world.
This provocative book meets the supposedly ‘live’ practices of performance and the ‘no-longer-live’ historical past at their own dangerous crossroads. Focussing on the ‘and’ of the title, it addresses the tangled relations between the terms, practices, ideas, and aims embedded in these compatriot – but often oppositional – arts and acts of time.
Lonergan argues that social media is itself a performance space, analysing how it's used by both theatres and audiences and also in connection with each other.
An overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past fifty years, situated lucidly in its artistic, cultural and political context. The resulting study is a detailed guide to the generation of directors whose careers were forged and tempered in the changing Europe of the 1980s and 1990s.
Recording of Imploding Fiction’s recreation of the Heiner Müller’s play. Includes booklet with reviews and information.
Part (10) of Paysages Choregraphiques Contemporains dans le Monde
Reviews ways in which sexuality has been explored and expressed in new forms of performance art and dance, women’s contributions to theatre history, and how theatre has represented women over the centuries.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Examines the relationship between an ethics of performance, a politics of place and a poetics of the urban environment.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Part of the Theatre& series.