Theatre in Crisis? Performance Manifestoes for a New Century

Name: Theatre in Crisis? Performance Manifestoes for a New Century
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ISBN: 9780719062919

ISBN-10: 0719062918

ISBN-13: 9780719062919

Edition: 2002

Authors: Maria M. Delgado, Caridad Svich, Maggie B. Gale, Peter Lichtenfels

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This wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theatre practice, economics, and issues related to identity, politics, and technology contains a snapshot dissection of where theatre is now, how it got there, and where it might be going.

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 10/31/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Caridad Svich is founder of NoPassport, a theater alliance and press; associate editor of Contemporary Theatre Review; and drama editor of Asymptote. She is recipient of a 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement.



List of illustrations


Acknowledgements


Theatre in crisis? Performance manifestos for a new century: snapshots of a time



Theatre in crisis? Living memory in an unstable time



Some quick thoughts on theatre and its future




Crisis as practice: strategies, concepts and working decisions


The comforts of crisis



Some words about the theatre today



Seeing through the national and global stereotypes: British theatre in crisis



The state of reviewing today



Critical path



Those who can do teach



Hold your nerve: notes for a young playwright



Against pessimism




Theatre and identity: negotiating doubt and passion


More enterprise in walking naked



Educating the audience: sharing the process



On the death of theatre: a call to action



Dancing with the dead man: notes on a theatre for the future of Europe



Black theatre at the turn of the millennium



The crisis of label



Notes on opera at the end of the century




What's to be done? Theatre off the map


The question of culture



The crisis of theatre? The theatre of crisis!



Scavenging for home (or, how I learned to take refuge in live theatre while worrying about the bomb)



Stealing kisses



A theatre of monsters: live performance in the age of digital media



The moment of realized actuality




Looking forward, looking back: theatre and the spiritual, messages to a new world


When an angel goes through the stage



Bad glamour



Heat bath



Theatre of the mind: a fugue in two parts



An evangelical capitalist message in a bottle to the next millennium of Robinson Crusoes in proscenium



Poor Tom's a-cold: reflections on the modern theatre in crisis



The theatre of good intentions



Letter to a young practitioner




Afterword


Theatre in crisis?



Select bibliography


Index