Nicholas Ridout

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

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Produktbeschreibung

This study looks into the things which go wrong on the theatre stage.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780521852081
• ISBN-10: 0521852080
• Artikelnr.: 22592396

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Ridout is Lecturer in Performance at the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: 1. From the promise of performance to the return of theatre
2. Kleist's Uber das Marionettentheater
3. From an ethics of performance to an affective politics of theatre
Part II. Stage Fright: The Predicament of the Actor: 1. In an 'awful hole'
2. A very 'modern' hole
3. Into the hole and out: diagnosis and cure
4. Abject hole: first 'blowback'
5. Face your fear
Part III. Embarrassment: The Predicament of the Audience: 1. Please don't look at me
2. What is embarrassment?
3. Towards a politics of shame
Part IV. The Animal on Stage: 1. Mouse in the house
2. Signs of labour
3. Animal politics
Part V. Mutual Predicaments: Corpsing and Fiasco: 1. Laughter
2. Corpsing
3. Fiasco
4. Forced entertainment
5. Lyotard on theatre: 'last blowback'
Afterword
Bibliography.