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Theatre In The Expanded Field

by Alan Read
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Original price ₹750.00
Original price ₹750.00
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9789388002196
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
  • Publisher Imprint: Methuen Drama India
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 296
  • Original Price: INR 750.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 420 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Theater / History & Criticism

Theatre in the Expanded Field is a fiercely origil, bold and daring exploration of the fields of theatre and performance studies and the received rratives and histories that underpin them. Rich with interdiscipliry reference, intertiol, eclectic and broad-ranging in its examples, it offers readers a compelling and provocative reassessment of the disciplines, one that spans pre-history to the present day.Sixty years ago, in 1962, Richard Southern wrote a remarkable book called The Seven Ages of the Theatre. It was unusual in its time for taking a trans-discipliry, new-historical and avowedly intertiolist approach to its subject - nothing less than a totalizing view of its field. Theatre in the Expanded Field does not attempt to mimic Southern's work but rather takes his spirit of adventure and ambition as its frame for the contemporary moment of performance and its diverse pasts. Identifying seven ways of exploring the performance field, from pre-history to postdramatic theatre the book presents studies of both contemporary and historical works not as a chronological succession, but in keeping with their coeval qualities, as movements or 'generations' of connection and interaction, dissensus and interruption. It does this with the same purpose as Richard Southern's origil work: to provide for the planning of responsive performance spaces 'now'.Illustrated throughout with line-drawings, Theatre in the Expanded Field is as richly rewarding as it is ambitious and expansive in it vision.

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