Theatre and Everyday Life by Alan Read
Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the experience of everyday life. It is a theatre which defines itself in terms of people and places rather than the idealised empty space of avant garde performance. Read examines the relationship between an ethics of performance, a politics of place and a poetics of the urban environment. His book is a persuasive demand for a critical theory of theatre which is as mentally supple as theatre is physically versatile.Alan Read is a theatre professor at King's College in London, England. In the 1980s, he directed the Council of Europe Workshop on Theatre and Communities and Rotherhithe Theatre Workshop in the Docklands area of South East London, in the 1990s, he worked as a freelance writer in Barcelona and as Director of Lectures at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, and from 1997 and 2003, he was the inaugural Professor of Theatre at Roehampton University and afterwards King's College London. Theatre & Daily Life: An Ethics of Performance (1993) and Theatre, Intimacy & Engagement: The Final Human Venue (2008) are two of his books. He was the first consultant editor for the journal Performance Research.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415069410 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415069416 |
| Title | Theatre and Everyday Life |
| Author | Alan Read |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 1995-06-08 |
| Number of pages | 276 |
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