Thinking through theatre and performance / edited by Maaike Bleeker, Adrian Kear, Joe Kelleher, Heike Roms.
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TextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2019Description: 384 pages : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472579607 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Theater -- Philosophy | Performing Arts | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 792'.01 Summary: 'Thinking Through Theatre and Performance' presents a bold and innovative approach to the study of theatre and performance. Instead of topics, genres, histories or theories, the book starts with the questions that theatre and performance are uniquely capable of asking: How does theatre function as a place for seeing and hearing? How do not only bodies and voices but also objects and media perform? How do memories, emotions and ideas continue to do their work when the performance is over? And how can theatre and performance intervene in social, political and environmental structures and frameworks? Written by leading international scholars, each chapter of this volume is built around a key performance example, and detailed discussions introduce the methodologies and theories that help us understand how these performances are practices of enquiry into the world.
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'Thinking Through Theatre and Performance' presents a bold and innovative approach to the study of theatre and performance. Instead of topics, genres, histories or theories, the book starts with the questions that theatre and performance are uniquely capable of asking: How does theatre function as a place for seeing and hearing? How do not only bodies and voices but also objects and media perform? How do memories, emotions and ideas continue to do their work when the performance is over? And how can theatre and performance intervene in social, political and environmental structures and frameworks? Written by leading international scholars, each chapter of this volume is built around a key performance example, and detailed discussions introduce the methodologies and theories that help us understand how these performances are practices of enquiry into the world.
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