Performance theory

Author

• Schechner, Richard

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

London: Routledge, 2003

Language

English

ISBN

9780415314558

Series

Subject(s)

• PERFORMING ARTS
• THEATERS
• RITES AND CEREMONIES

Notes

. Bibliography: p. 367-382. Index: p. 383-406

Abstract

Few have had quite as much impact in both the academy and in the world of theatre production as Richard Schechner. For more than four decades his work has challenged conventional definitions of theatre, ritual and performance. When this seminal collection first appeared, Schechner's approach was not only novel, it was revolutionary: drama is not just something that occurs on stage, but something that happens in everyday life, full of meaning, and on many different levels. Within these pages he examines the connections between Western and non-Western cultures, theatre and dance, anthropology, ritual, performance in everyday life, rites of passage, play, psychotherapy and shamanism.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

xix, 407 p.

Dimension

20 cm.

Other Desc.

-

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Approaches --
Actuals --
Drama, script, theater, and performance --
From ritual to theater and back : the efficacy, entertainment braid --
Toward a poetics of performance --
Selective inattention --
Ethology and theater --
Magnitudes of performance --
Rasaesthetics.

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