Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure

Name: Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure
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ISBN: 9780415585651

ISBN-10: 0415585651

ISBN-13: 9780415585651

Edition: 2010

Authors: Sara Jane Bailes

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What does it mean to 'fail' in performance? Or, what do performances founded upon the collapse of their own invention illuminate that other modes of theatre usually aim to conceal?Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure begins by approaching Samuel Beckett's dramatic disposition where failure is perceived as a deliberate and effective poetics. Sara Jane Bailes extends such strategies through theoretical and archival modes of investigation in an enlightening analysis. This book offer case studies of acclaimed UK and US experimental theatre companies Forced Entertainment, Elevator Repair Service and Goat Island as exemplars of performance as failure.The author uses detailed rehearsal…

Book details

Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 8/25/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of figures


Acknowledgments


Preface



Introduction: Failure and Representation



World(s) after a Different Image: Marxism, Slapstick, Punk



Profane Illumination: Theatre and Forced Entertainment



News from Nowhere: Goat Island Performance Group



Dislocations of Practice: Elevator Repair Service


Afterword: the Future of Failure


Notes


Bibliography


Index