Performing drama = dramatizing performance : alternative theater and the dramatic text / Michael Vanden Heuvel

792.028 VAN

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"Performing Drama/Dramatizing Performance examines the interaction between avant-garde performance and mainstream text-oriented drama. The author begins with a historical survey of American alternative theater, from its origins in the 1960s avant-garde through the theoretical and formalist experimental work of the 1970s. He then traces how, over the last thirty years, the two strands have been slowly merging, allowing contemporary theater artists the opportunity to intertwine elements of both performance and drama to produce innovative integrated works.

This study puts recent developments in performance in context, making them more accessible to students unfamiliar with avant-garde and recent theory and to those confused by this new and often disorienting work. Vanden Heuvel places the disparate directions in contemporary theory into an interpretive framework that will aid scholars from a variety of fields: English and dramatic literature, contemporary theater history, performance studies, and cultural studies." -- Web de l'editor

Sumari: Introduction: Drama, performance, and the emergence of a new dialogics of teh teater -- 1. The avant-garde urge and the margins of performance -- 2. "The sad tale a last time told": closing performance and liberating the text in the plays of Samuel Beckett -- 3. The fractal dimensions of a fractious culture: The Wooster Group and the politics of performance -- 4. "Of our origins / in ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds": Robert Wilson's search for a new order of vision -- 5. The landlocked geography of a hourse dreamer: performance and consciousness in the plays of Sam Shepard -- Afterword: the present landscape -- Notes -- References -- Index