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Performance Theory Richard Schechner

Performance Theory By Richard Schechner

Performance Theory by Richard Schechner


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Summary

This cogent and provocative compilation of essays is now a classic text for students of the emergent discipline of performance studies.

Performance Theory Summary

Performance Theory by Richard Schechner

Arguably the defining text of theatre studies

An updated edition with a new preface by the author in which he looks back at the field he was so instrumental in creating, and a new final chapter

Unparalleled within his field, when Performance Theory was first published 4 decades ago, Schechner redefined the world of performance, contesting the boundaries that separated audience and actor.

Performance Theory Reviews

'Reading Performance Theory by Richard Schechner again, three decades after its first edition, is like meeting an old friend and finding out how much of him/her has been with you all along this way.' - Augusto Boal


'Richard Schechner has defined the parameters of contemporary performance with an originality and insight that make him indispensable to contemporary theatrical thought. For many years, both scholars and artists have been inspired by his unique and powerful perspective.' - Richard Foreman

'Schechner's views are usually provocative, his incidental comments are often acute, and he has a commendable gift for making unexpected connections.' - British Journal of Aesthetics

'Reading Performance Theory by Richard Schechner again, three decades after its first edition, is like meeting an old friend and finding out how much of him/her has been with you all along this way.' - Augusto Boal

'It is an indispensable text in all aspects of the new discipline of Performance Studies. It is in many ways an eye-opener particularly in its linkage of theater to other performance genres.' - Ngugi wa Thiong'o, University of California

'Performance Theory is Richard Schechner's classic contribution to the performing arts and critical theory. This is a work of erudite elegance which blazes across disciplines, cultures, and histories, illuminating some of the most fundamental symbols and rituals through which we make sense of the world in which we live.' - Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University

Richard Schechner is the master teacher and the master conversant on the transformative power of performance to both performer and spectator, at its deepest level. Performance Theory is the essential book which brilliantly illuminates the world as a performance space on stage and off. - Anna Deavere Smith

Anna Deavere Smith

Anna Deavere Smith

About Richard Schechner

One of contemporary theatre's most celebrated directors, he is also a world-renowned artist and scholar.

Table of Contents

Author's Note; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The fan and the web; 1. Approaches; 2. Actuals; 3. Drama, script, theater, and performance; 4. From ritual to theater and back: the efficacy-entertainment braid; 5. Towards a poetics of performance; 6.Selective inattention; 7. Ethology and theater; 8. Magnitudes of performance; References; Index

Additional information

GOR003986022
9780415314558
0415314550
Performance Theory by Richard Schechner
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
20030821
432
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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