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Author Tomlin, Liz.

Title Acts and apparitions : discourses on the real in performance practice and theory, 1990-2010 / Liz Tomlin
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages)
Contents ACTS AND APPARITIONS: Discourses on the real in performance practice and theory, 1990-2010; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: The discursive act; 1 Discourses of resistance: representation and the real in the twentieth-century avant-gardes; 2 Deconstructing the postdramatic: questions of mimesis, authorship and representation; Part II: Apparitions of the real; 3 Quoting quotations: citational theory and contemporary characterisation; 4 Representing the real: verbatim practice in a sceptical age
5 Re-membering the real: experiential challenges to the medium of theatrical representation6 From spect-actor to corporate player: reconfigurations of twenty-first-century audiences; Afterword; References; Index
Summary Acts and apparitions examines how new performance practices from the 1990s and the present day have been driven by questions of the real and the ensuing political implications of the concept's rapidly disintegrating authority
Analysis artistic development
documentary theatre tradition
dramatic representation
experiential realities
performance practices
performer
philosophical development
political implications
postdramatic deconstructions
poststructuralist narrative
radicalism
representational practice
spectator
theatrical representations
verbatim methodologies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Theater -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Theater -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Realism.
Theater and philosophy.
Authors and theater.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
Authors and theater
Realism
Theater
Theater and philosophy
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016296919
ISBN 9781526130747
1526130742