Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure

Notes

Begins with Samuel Beckett and considers failure in performance as a hopeful strategy.

Artist / Author Sara Jane Bailes
Publisher Routledge
ISBN 978-0-415-58565-1
Reference P1483
Date 2011
Type Publication

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