🎉   Please check out our new website over at books-etc.com.

Seller
Your price
£14.14
RRP: £17.99
Save £3.85 (21%)
Dispatched within 2-3 working days.

Acts and Apparitions

Discourses on the Real in Performance Practice and Theory, 1990-2010

By (author) Elizabeth Tomlin
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Manchester University Press, Manchester, United Kingdom
Published: 18th Apr 2016
Dimensions: w 134mm h 223mm d 9mm
Weight: 310g
ISBN-10: 178499376X
ISBN-13: 9781784993764
Barcode No: 9781784993764
Trade or Institutional customer? Contact us about large order quotes.
Synopsis
Acts and apparitions examines how new performance practices from the 1990s to the present day have been driven by questions of the real and the ensuing political implications of the concept's rapidly disintegrating authority. This book departs significantly from existing scholarship on contemporary performance in its rejection of the dramatic/postdramatic binary and its interrogation of previous applications of Derridean poststructuralism to theatrical representation and notions of the real. It offers new perspectives on the political analysis of contemporary theatre and performance across a wide range of models from Forced Entertainment and the Wooster Group, to Roland Schimmelpfennig and Howard Barker; from verbatim theatre to audio tours and the interactive performances of Ontroerend Goed. -- .

New & Used

Seller Information Condition Price
-New£14.14
+ FREE UK P & P

What Reviewers Are Saying

Submit your review
Newspapers & Magazines
'Liz Tomlin's book offers a major contribution to the field of theatre and performance studies, arguing that contemporary performance has inherited a legacy from the avant-garde in positioning its practices as radical in opposition to the dramatic real.', Kara Reilly, University of Exeter|This insightful and important text is a real gift to anyone studying contemporary performance., James Frieze, New Theatre Quarterly, Book Reviews, February 2014 -- .