{"product_id":"performing-the-unstageable-success-imagination-failure-9781350055452","title":"Performing the Unstageable: Success, Imagination, Failure","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Karen Quigley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Methuen Drama\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Methuen Drama\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Theater - History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the gouging out of eyes in Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e or Sarah Kane's\u003ci\u003e Cleansed\u003c\/i\u003e, to the adaptation of Philip Pullman's \u003ci\u003eHis Dark Materials\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, theatre has long been intrigued by the staging of challenging plays and impossible texts, images or ideas. \u003ci\u003ePerforming the Unstageable: Success, Imagination, Failure \u003c\/i\u003eexamines this phenomenon of what the theatre cannot do or has not been able to do at various points in its history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book explores four principal areas to which unstageability most frequently pertains: stage directions, adaptations, violence and ghosts. Karen Quigley incorporates a wide range of case studies of both historical and contemporary theatrical productions including the Wooster Group's exploration of\u003ci\u003e Hamlet\u003c\/i\u003e via the structural frame of John Gielgud's 1964 filmed production, Elevator Repair Service's eight-hour staging of Fitzgerald's \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e and a selection of impossible stage directions drawn from works by such playwrights as Eugene O'Neill, Philip Glass, Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane and Alistair McDowall. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePlacing theatre history and performance analysis in such a context, \u003ci\u003ePerforming the Unstageable\u003c\/i\u003e values what is not possible, and investigates the tricky underside of theatre's most fundamental function to bring things to the place of showing: the stage.","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45085711532183,"sku":"9781350055452","price":12061.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781350055452.webp?v=1767898568","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/performing-the-unstageable-success-imagination-failure-9781350055452","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}