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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... 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 Solid Sound.
... idea of performance unable to escape from theater , with its topography of appearance , always under suspicion , and the impossible prospect of ever relieving that — no more than a generation of anti- Oedipus or the lure of performative ...
... ideas , like the " index futures " following Black Monday before the Japanese " bubble " burst . So , the first essay— " Afterthought from the Vanishing Point : Theater at the End of the Real " ( written in 1993 ) —refers to the levees ...
... ideas informing the work — once we were into it , mostly by reflex — it seemed a far cry from attitudes about the arts circulating in critical theory , with its ideological take on the sta- tus of the aesthetic , to which I turned at ...
... ideas or shallow ideas , rare complexity or power of mind , which appears recently to have surfaced , however , in the vicinity of Broadway . Just this morning , for in- stance , a review in the New York Times of a play called Proof ...
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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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