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Theatre and its Double
Av Antonin Artaud, Mark Taylor-Batty
Häftad, 2024
253 kr
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In The Theatre and Its Double, first published in 1938, Antonin Artaud puts forward his radical theories on drama and theatre, which he saw as being stifled by conservatism and a lack of experimentation.Containing the famous manifestos of the ‘Theatre of Cruelty’, this collection of essays analyses …
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
Av Mark Taylor-Batty, Juliette Taylor-Batty
Inbunden, 2009
1802 kr
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This title offers informative critical introduction to Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", one of the most commonly studied modern plays."Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot" is not only an indisputably important and influential dramatic text - it is also one of the most significant western cultural …
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
Av Mark Taylor-Batty, Juliette Taylor-Batty
Häftad, 2009
334 kr
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This title provides informative critical introduction to Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", one of the most commonly studied modern plays."Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot" is not only an indisputably important and influential dramatic text - it is also one of the most significant western cultural …
Authenticity in Contemporary Theatre and Performance
Make it Real
Av Daniel Schulze, Enoch Brater m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1394 kr
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Authenticity is one of the major values of our time. It is visible everywhere, from clothing to food to self-help books. While it is such a prevalent phenomenon, it is also very evasive. This study analyses the ‘culture of authenticity’ as it relates to theatre and establishes a theoretical …
Christoph Schlingensief
Staging Chaos, Performing Politics and Theatrical Phantasmagoria
Av Anna Teresa Scheer, Mark Taylor-Batty
Inbunden, 2018
1613 kr
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The first book to focus specifically on the late German artist Christoph Schlingensief’s theatre work, it subversively merges art, politics and everyday life to imbue his productions both inside and outside the theatre with a re-energized concept of the political in art. Scheer traces …
Encountering Europe on British Stages
Performances and Politics since 1990
Av Marilena Zaroulia, Enoch Brater m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1523 kr
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Forty years after Britain's entry to the European Economic Community, the country's political and cultural landscapes are still marked by scepticism or resistance to 'continental' Europe. Encountering Europe on British Stages is the first book-length study of the ways in which British theatre and …
Performing the Unstageable
Success, Imagination, Failure
Av Karen Quigley, Mark Taylor-Batty
Inbunden, 2020
1557 kr
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From the gouging out of eyes in Shakespeare’s King Lear or Sarah Kane’s Cleansed, to the adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, theatre has long been intrigued by the staging of challenging plays and impossible texts, images or ideas. Performing the Unstageable: Success, …
Watching War on the Twenty-First Century Stage
Spectacles of Conflict
Av Clare Finburgh Delijani, Mark Taylor-Batty
Häftad, 2019
518 kr
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What do we watch when we watch war? Who manages public perceptions of war and how? Watching War on the Twenty-First-Century Stage: Spectacles of Conflict is the first publication to examine how theatre in the UK has staged, debated and challenged the ways in which spectacle is habitually weaponized …
Christoph Schlingensief
Staging Chaos, Performing Politics and Theatrical Phantasmagoria
Av Anna Teresa Scheer, Mark Taylor-Batty
Häftad, 2019
518 kr
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The first book to focus specifically on the late German artist Christoph Schlingensief’s theatre work, it subversively merges art, politics and everyday life to imbue his productions both inside and outside the theatre with a re-energized concept of the political in art. Scheer traces …
Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance
The Initiation of History
Av Maurya Wickstrom, Mark Taylor-Batty
Häftad, 2019
518 kr
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Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance: The Initiation of History takes up the urgent need to think about temporality and its relationship to history in new ways, focusing on theatre and performance as mediums through which politically innovative temporalities, divorced from historical …
Postdramatic Theatre and India
Theatre-Making Since the 1990s
Av Ashis Sengupta, Mark Taylor-Batty
Inbunden, 2022
1394 kr
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This book revisits Hans-Thies Lehmann’s theory of the postdramatic and participates in the ongoing debate on the theatre paradigm by placing contemporary Indian performance within it. None of the Indian theatre-makers under study built their works directly on the Euro-American model of postdramatic …
Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty-First Century Theatre
Politics, Affect, Responsibility
Av Marissia Fragkou, Mark Taylor-Batty
Häftad, 2020
504 kr
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Presenting a rigorous critical investigation of the reinvigoration of the political in contemporary British theatre, Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty-First Century Theatre provides a fresh understanding of how theatre has engaged with precarity, affect, risk, intimacy, care and relationality in …
Contemporary History Play
Staging English and American Pasts
Av Benjamin Poore, Mark Taylor-Batty
Inbunden, 2024
1321 kr
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Something exciting is happening with the contemporary history play. New writing by playwrights such as Jackie Sibblies Drury, Samuel Adamson, Hannah Khalil, Cordelia Lynn, and Lucy Kirkwood, makes powerful theatrical use of the past, but does not fit into critics’ familiar categories of historical …
Brecht and Post-1990s British Drama
Dialectical Theatre Today
Av Anja Hartl, Mark Taylor-Batty
Inbunden, 2021
1557 kr
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Can theatre change the world? If so, how can it productively connect with social reality and foster spectatorial critique and engagement? This open access book examines the forms and functions of political drama in what has been described as a post-Marxist, post-ideological, even post-political …
Social Housing in Performance
The English Council Estate on and off Stage
Av Katie Beswick, Mark Taylor-Batty
Häftad, 2020
504 kr
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This book explores the ways that council estates have been represented in England across a range of performance forms. Drawing on examples from mainstream, site-specific and resident-led performance works, it considers the political potential of contemporary performance practices concerned with the …
Feminism, Dramaturgy, and the Contemporary British History Play
Av Rebecca Benzie, Mark Taylor-Batty
Inbunden, 2024
1321 kr
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When we think of the contemporary British history play, why might we automatically think of playwrights such as David Hare, Howard Brenton, Peter Gill and Edward Bond? Because for decades the writing of the history play has been the preserve of the white male.This book provides a vital feminist …
Feminism, Dramaturgy, and the Contemporary British History Play
Av Rebecca Benzie, Mark Taylor-Batty
Häftad, 2026
431 kr
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When we think of the contemporary British history play, why might we automatically think of playwrights such as David Hare, Howard Brenton, Peter Gill and Edward Bond? Because for decades the writing of the history play has been the preserve of the white male.This book provides a vital feminist …
Political Dramaturgies and Theatre Spectatorship
Provocations for Change
Av Liz Tomlin, Mark Taylor-Batty
Häftad, 2020
546 kr
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What do we mean when we describe theatre as political today? How might theatre-makers’ provocations for change need to be differently designed when addressing the precarious spectator-subject of twenty- first century neoliberalism? In this important study Liz Tomlin interrogates the influential …
Brecht and Post-1990s British Drama
Dialectical Theatre Today
Av Anja Hartl, Mark Taylor-Batty
Häftad, 2022
530 kr
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Can theatre change the world? If so, how can it productively connect with social reality and foster spectatorial critique and engagement? This open access book examines the forms and functions of political drama in what has been described as a post-Marxist, post-ideological, even post-political …
Staging Decadence
Theatre, Performance, and the Ends of Capitalism
Av Adam Alston, Mark Taylor-Batty
Inbunden, 2023
1283 kr
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Winner of the 2024 TaPRA David Bradby Monograph PrizeHow is decadence being staged today – as a practice, issue, pejorative, and as a site of pleasure? Where might we find it, why might we look for it, and who is decadence for?This book is the first monographic study of decadence in theatre and …
Staging Decadence
Theatre, Performance, and the Ends of Capitalism
Av Adam Alston, Mark Taylor-Batty
Häftad, 2025
418 kr
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Winner of the 2024 TaPRA David Bradby Monograph PrizeHow is decadence being staged today – as a practice, issue, pejorative, and as a site of pleasure? Where might we find it, why might we look for it, and who is decadence for?This book is the first monographic study of decadence in theatre and …
Mediatized Dramaturgy
The Evolution of Plays in the Media Age
Av Seda Ilter, Mark Taylor-Batty
Häftad, 2023
445 kr
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This study explores the ways in which playtexts have evolved in relation to the sociocultural and cognitive conditions of a mediatized age, and how they, in form and content, respond to this environment and open up new critical possibilities in text and performance. The study combines theatre and …
Sarah Kane’s Theatre of Psychic Life
Theatre, Thought and Mental Suffering
Av Leah Sidi, Mark Taylor-Batty
Inbunden, 2023
1476 kr
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Sarah Kane was one of the landmark playwrights of 1990s Britain, her influence being felt across UK and European theatre. This is the first book to focus exclusively on Kane’s unique approach to mind and mental health. It offers an important re-evaluation of her oeuvre, revealing the relationship …
Sarah Kane’s Theatre of Psychic Life
Theatre, Thought and Mental Suffering
Av Leah Sidi, Mark Taylor-Batty
Häftad, 2024
497 kr
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The first book to focus exclusively on playwright Sarah Kane’s approach to mind and mental health; it brings together archival material, healthcare contexts and contemporary performances. As such, it offers an important re-evaluation of Kane’s oeuvre, revealing the relationship between theatre and …
Postdramatic Theatre and India
Theatre-Making Since the 1990s
Av Ashis Sengupta, Mark Taylor-Batty
Häftad, 2023
445 kr
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None of the Indian theatre-makers consciously built their works on the Euro-American model of the postdramatic, but many have used the theatre model in innovative, transnational ways. Essentially, they have adapted an originally European theatre paradigm to a different historical context and added …
Metamodernism in Contemporary British Theatre
A Politics of Hope/lessness
Av Tom Drayton, Mark Taylor-Batty
Inbunden, 2024
1321 kr
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Postmodern theatre is dead. A new theatre is rising – one that combines the well-worn postmodern aesthetics of irony, detachment, and deconstruction with a paradoxical interest in authenticity, engagement, and re-construction. Whilst recent scholarship has treated these evolving interests as …
Metamodernism in Contemporary British Theatre
A Politics of Hope/lessness
Av Tom Drayton, Mark Taylor-Batty m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
431 kr
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Postmodern theatre is dead. A new theatre is rising – one that combines the well-worn postmodern aesthetics of irony, detachment, and deconstruction with a paradoxical interest in authenticity, engagement, and re-construction. Whilst recent scholarship has treated these evolving interests as …
Theatre and its Double
Av Antonin Artaud, Mark Taylor-Batty
Inbunden, 2024
737 kr
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In The Theatre and Its Double, first published in 1938, Antonin Artaud puts forward his radical theories on drama and theatre, which he saw as being stifled by conservatism and a lack of experimentation.Containing the famous manifestos of the ‘Theatre of Cruelty’, this collection of essays analyses …
Theatre and its Double
Av Antonin Artaud, Mark Taylor-Batty
E-bok, 2024
273 kr
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In The Theatre and Its Double , first published in 1938, Antonin Artaud puts forward his radical theories on drama and theatre, which he saw as being stifled by conservatism and a lack of experimentation. Containing the famous manifestos of the ''Theatre of Cruelty'', this collection of essays …
Theatre and its Double
Av Antonin Artaud, Mark Taylor-Batty
E-bok, 2024
273 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In The Theatre and Its Double , first published in 1938, Antonin Artaud puts forward his radical theories on drama and theatre, which he saw as being stifled by conservatism and a lack of experimentation. Containing the famous manifestos of the ''Theatre of Cruelty'', this collection of essays …