We know that size matters in many areas of human endeavor, but what about works of the imagination> Why do some dramatic creations extend to five hours or more, and how does their extreme length help them accomplish extraordinary ambitious aims? IN Great Lengths, theater critic …
This book articulates the first theoretical context for a 'cyborg theatre,' metaphorically integrating on-stage bodies with the technologized, digitized, or mediatized, to re-imagine subjectivity for a post-human age. It covers a variety of examples, to propose new theoretical t…
This is the first history of Japan's avant-garde underground theatre ( angura ) in a time of its most intense, creative, and original productions, viz. 1960-2000. It closely investigates the interrelationship of aesthetics and politics and explores contrasting examples of contem…
"This is the first history of Japan's avant-garde underground theatre (angura) in a time of its most intense, creative, and original productions, viz. 1960-2000." "It closely investigates the interrelationship of aesthetics and politics and explores contrasting examples of conte…
"In a world flooded with information, images, and sounds - where the distinction between real and simulated becomes increasingly blurred - one of the most pressing concerns of the theatre is how to overcome expected audience reaction and recast the well known in a new and meanin…
Drawing from a variety of sources she demonstrates that theatrical estrangement is not only an abstract theoretical postulate, but also a practical artistic strategy shaped by the cultural and historical climate.
