Theatre and everyday life : an ethics of performance / Alan Read

By:

Read, Alan, 1956-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993Description: 260 p.; 24 cmISBN:

0415069408
0415069416 (rústega)

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Summary: "Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the experience of everyday life. It is a theatre which defines itself in terms of people and places rather than the idealised empty space of avant garde performance.Read examines the relationship between an ethics of performance, a politics of place and a poetics of the urban environment. His book is a persuasive demand for a critical theory of theatre which is as mentally supple as theatre is physically versatile." -- Contracoberta

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Magatzem Fons N	N-40891 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		1900017169
Llibre	Biblioteca Terrassa	Biblioteca Terrassa VALLÈS-J.Oliver	792.01 REA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		1900009084

792.01 REA

Bibliografia. Índex

"Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the experience of everyday life. It is a theatre which defines itself in terms of people and places rather than the idealised empty space of avant garde performance.Read examines the relationship between an ethics of performance, a politics of place and a poetics of the urban environment. His book is a persuasive demand for a critical theory of theatre which is as mentally supple as theatre is physically versatile." -- Contracoberta

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