Alan Read

The Dark Theatre

A Book About Loss

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Produktbeschreibung

The Dark Theatre returns to the bankrupted warehouse in Hope (Sufferance) Wharf in Londonà â â s Docklands where Alan Read worked through the 1980s to identify a four-decade interregnum of à â Ë cultural crueltyà â â wreaked by financialisation, austerity and communicative capitalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 154mm x 234mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780367436407
• ISBN-10: 036743640X
• Artikelnr.: 59357985

Autorenporträt

Alan Read is a writer and Professor of Theatre at King¿s College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Loss Adjustor: Collateral Damage in the Capitalocene
Chapter 1: The Dark Theatre: Bankruptcy & the Logics of Expulsion
Chapter 2: The Eruption of the Audience & the Dictatorship of the Performatariat
Chapter 3: All the Home's a Stage: Social Reproduction & Everyday Life
Interlude: Dreadful Trade: The Vertigo of Attractions
Part II: Living Currency: Scenes from the Last Human Venue
Chapter 4: Irreparable State: Compensations of Performance
Chapter 5: Arrested Life: Ecology of the New Enclosures
Chapter 6: Cultural Cruelty: Extraordinary Rendition & Acoustic Shock
Chapter 7: Poor History: Field Notes from a Fire Sale
Outstanding Debts
The Milliner's Shop
Bibliography
Index