The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000U of Minnesota Press, 01/01/2002 - 347 من الصفحات 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. Blau's struggle to bring a critical intelligence to the American stage goes back half a century, to the quiescent postwar years (which he has eloquently described in The Impossible Theater: A Manifesto). His innovations in performance began with early productions of now-canonical plays that were hardly known at that time (works by Brecht, Beckett, Genet, Pinter, Duerrenmatt, and others). His experience is as distinctive as his versatile habits of mind and conceptual urgency of style. If the impossible takes a little time (as the title of one essay states), Blau's struggle now continues in a theoretical vein. Performance-and his own compelling writing- has moved across other genres and disciplines into fashion, politics, sexuality, and theory. His diversity of thought is demonstrated here in commentaries about the newer modes of performance (including conceptual and body art), various American playwrights, Renaissance drama, new music and theater, voice, the senses and the baroque, and the photographic image. As the essays reflect upon each other, a kind of cultural history, with inflections of autobiography, develops-which is what readers of Blau's previous books have come to expect. |
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... Dreams of O'Neill in the Age of Deconstruction 189 13. Readymade Desire 199 14. Water under the Bridge 206 From Tango Palace to Mud 15. Fervently Impossible 215 The Group Idea and Its Legacy 16. Noise , Musication , Beethoven , and ...
... dream or that , seek for truth as we may — in the meta- physical mist of seeming that won't seem to go away — it somehow al- ways escapes us or is not what it appears to be , as if at the heart of the re- ality principle is the future ...
... dreaming . There were times , moreover , when there was sufficient imaginative daring that , spellbound in looking , you almost had to look away , close as it was — in the recombinant seeming of body parts , ear into heel , ass into ...
... dreams of the modern era , which has been nowhere real- ized except for , beyond the dubious , the delusive historical moment . This is not said with any cynicism or congenital disenchantment . That it seems impossible is no reason ...
... dream that still shapes the agenda of critical theory , as well as the fantasy text of dissident theater practice ? It's as if for the sake of renewal in the detritus of the dream a kind of homeopathic violence were required , and that ...
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Theater at the End of the Real | 9 |
2 The Impossible Takes a Little Time | 26 |
3 Spacing Out in the American Theater | 45 |
Rehearsing the Resistance | 61 |
5 A Dove in My Chimney | 70 |
An Analytic Scenario | 78 |
The Grail of the Voice | 126 |
Chills and Fever Mourning and the Vanities of the Sublime | 140 |
13 Readymade Desire | 207 |
From Tango Palace to Mud | 214 |
The Group Idea and Its Legacy | 223 |
New Music and Theater | 238 |
17 FlatOut Vision | 254 |
Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher | 273 |
Revising the Abyss | 289 |
The Insane Root | 315 |
9 The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity | 145 |
Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America | 165 |
Educating the American Theater | 189 |
12 The Pipe Dreams of ONeill in the Age of Deconstruction | 197 |
Notes | 329 |
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