272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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Examining the development of avant garde theatre from its inception in the 1890s right up to the present day, Christopher Innes exposes a central paradox of modern theatre; that the motivating force of theatrical experimentation is primitivism. What links the work of Strindberg, Artaud, Brook and Mnouchkine is an idealisation of the elemental and a desire to find ritual in archaic traditions. This... Read more
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1.Introduction 2 The Politics of Primitivism 3. Dreams, Archetypes and the Irrational 4. Therapy and Subliminal Theatre 5. Antonin Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty 6. Ritual and Acts of Communion 7. Black Masses and Ceremonies of Negation 8. Myth and Theatre Laboratories 9. Secular Religions and Physical Spiritualitty 10. Anthropology, Environmental Theatre and Sexual Revolution 11. Interculturalism and Expropriating the Classics 12 From the Margins to Mainstream
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Christopher Innes
