The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000U of Minnesota Press, 01.01.2002 - 347 Seiten Spanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross-reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau--his directing, writing, and criticism--has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory. |
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... York . The essay that follows , “ A Dove in My Chimney , ” was written in re- sponse to a series of questions ( partially prompted by Joseph Chaikin , who had been performing in Paris ) for an issue of a French journal about the ...
... York . The essay that follows , “ A Dove in My Chimney , ” was written in re- sponse to a series of questions ( partially prompted by Joseph Chaikin , who had been performing in Paris ) for an issue of a French journal about the ...
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... York Times of a play called Proof — about fa- ther and daughter mathematicians — began with the sentence , “ Have you noticed how many well - educated characters are holding forth on New York stages ? ” And then , calling attention to ...
... York Times of a play called Proof — about fa- ther and daughter mathematicians — began with the sentence , “ Have you noticed how many well - educated characters are holding forth on New York stages ? ” And then , calling attention to ...
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... York, than there were at the time (about three hundred now, I hear, as opposed to the handful then),13 and I like to think that the book had something to do with that. But when it first came out, it certainly raised a lot of hackles ...
... York, than there were at the time (about three hundred now, I hear, as opposed to the handful then),13 and I like to think that the book had something to do with that. But when it first came out, it certainly raised a lot of hackles ...
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... York, displacing him, along with Elia Kazan and Robert Whitehead, as we took over the directorship of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center. One of the last times I saw Harold was outside the soon-to-be-completed Beaumont Theater, in ...
... York, displacing him, along with Elia Kazan and Robert Whitehead, as we took over the directorship of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center. One of the last times I saw Harold was outside the soon-to-be-completed Beaumont Theater, in ...
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... York, before going on to France. It is a remarkable piece, actually, with remarkable collaborators, but putting that aside (a one-shot deal, I say), I had not been active in the theater for more than a decade, a terminal condition, it ...
... York, before going on to France. It is a remarkable piece, actually, with remarkable collaborators, but putting that aside (a one-shot deal, I say), I had not been active in the theater for more than a decade, a terminal condition, it ...
Inhalt
1 | |
2 The Impossible Takes a Little Time | 18 |
3 Spacing Out in the American Theater | 37 |
Rehearsing the Resistance | 53 |
5 A Dove in My Chimney | 62 |
An Analytic Scenario | 70 |
The Grail of the Voice | 118 |
Chills and Fever Mourning and the Vanities of the Sublime | 132 |
13 Readymade Desire | 199 |
From Tango Palace to Mud | 206 |
The Group Idea and Its Legacy | 215 |
New Music and Theater | 230 |
17 FlatOut Vision | 246 |
Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher | 265 |
Revising the Abyss | 281 |
The Insane Root | 307 |
9 The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity | 137 |
Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America | 157 |
Educating the American Theater | 181 |
12 The Pipe Dreams of ONeill in the Age of Deconstruction | 189 |
Notes | 321 |
Previous Publications | 335 |
Index | 337 |
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