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Performance in the Twenty-First Century Theatres of Engagement

By Andy Lavender Copyright 2016

248 Pages

by Routledge

248 Pages

by Routledge

248 Pages

by Routledge

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Performance in the Twenty-First Century: Theatres of Engagement addresses the reshaping of theatre and performance after postmodernism. Andy Lavender argues provocatively that after the ‘classic’ postmodern tropes of detachment, irony, and contingency, performance in the twenty-first century engages more overtly with meaning, politics and society. It involves a newly pronounced form of personal... Read more

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Figures

Acknowledgements

SCENES OF ENGAGEMENT

0 Introduction

1 Theatres of Engagement: performance after postmodernism

ON MEDIATING PERFORMANCE

2 The Visible Voice (or, the Word made Flesh): political presence and performative utterance in the public sphere

3 In the Mix: intermedial theatre and hybridity

4 Feeling the Event: from mise en scène to mise en sensibilité

ON (NOT) BEING AN ACTOR

5 Sincerely yours: from the actor to the persona

6 Me Singing and Dancing: YouTube’s performing bodies

ON (NOT) BEING A SPECTATOR

7 Viewing and Acting (and points in between): the trouble with spectating after Rancière

8 Audiences and Affects: theatres of engagement in the experience economy

THEATRE BEYOND THEATRE

9 Performance Engagements across Culture

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Author(s)

Biography

Andy Lavender is a Professor of Theatre and Performance and Head of the School of Arts at the University of Surrey.

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