Acknowledgements |
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Series Preface |
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Introduction |
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PART I ACTING AND PERFORMANCE |
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1 `When Acting is an Art', in An Actor Prepares, trans. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood, London: Methuen, pp. 12--23. |
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2 `Michael Chekhov on the Technique of Acting: Was Don Quixote True to Life?”r;', in Alison Hodge (ed.), Twentieth Century Actor Training, London: Routledge, pp. 79--97. |
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3 `The Dance of the Future', in The Art of the Dance, New York: Theatre Arts Books, pp. 54--63. |
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4 `The Actor and the Uber-Marionette', in Franc Chamberlain (ed.), On the Art of Theatre, Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 27--48. |
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47 | (22) |
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5 `Actors on Brecht', in Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Brecht, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 278--96. |
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69 | (20) |
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6 `Introduction', in The Mastery of Movement, revised by Lisa Ullmann, Plymouth: Northcote House, pp. 1--17. |
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89 | (18) |
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7 `Samuel Beckett as Director: The Art of Mastering Failure', in John Pilling (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Beckett, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 196--208. |
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107 | (14) |
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8 `Performance', in The Theatre of Growtowski, London: Methuen, pp. 128--43. |
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121 | (20) |
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9 `Theatre Theory: Sociology and the Actor's Technique', in Towards a Third Theatre: Eugenio Barba and the Odin Teatret, London: Routledge, pp. 30--40. |
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141 | (12) |
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10 `The Masks of Jacques Lecoq', in Franc Chamberlain and Ralph Yarrow (eds), Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre, London: Routledge, pp. 71--84. |
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153 | (14) |
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11 `Woman, Man, Dog, Tree: Two Decades of Intimate and Monumental Bodies in Pina Bausch's Tanztheater', in Rebecca Schneider and Gabrielle Cody (eds), Re:Direction: A Theoretical and Practical Guide, London: Routledge, pp. 193--205. |
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167 | (14) |
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12 `On Risk and Investment', in Certain Fragments, London: Routledge, pp. 48--49. |
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181 | (2) |
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13 `On Seeing the Invisible', in Marina Abramovic (ed.), The House with the Ocean View, Milan: Charta, pp. 171--79. |
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183 | (12) |
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PART II STAGING PERFORMANCE |
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14 `Of the Futility of the Theatrical”r; in the Theater', in Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor (eds), Selected Works of Alfred Jarry, London: Methuen, pp. 69--75. |
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195 | (8) |
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15 `Ideas on a Reform of Our Mise en Scene', in Adolphe Appia: Essays, Scenarios and Designs, trans. Walther R. Volbach, ed. Richard C. Beacham, Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, pp. 101--107. |
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203 | (8) |
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16 `The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism', in Marinetti's Selected Writings, ed. R.W. Flint, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 39--44. |
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211 | (6) |
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17 `Biomechanics and Constructivism', in Meyerhold: A Revolution in Theatre, London: Methuen, pp. 172--87. |
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217 | (18) |
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18 `The Naked Stage', in Jacques Copeau, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 51--63. |
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235 | (14) |
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19 `Theater (Buhne)', in Walter Gropius and Arthur S. Wensinger (eds), The Theatre of the Bauhaus, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, pp. 81--101. |
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249 | (22) |
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20 `The Documentary Play', in The Political Theatre, trans. H. Rorrison, London: Methuen, pp. 91--98. |
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271 | (8) |
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21 `Bertolt Brecht (1898--1956) and Caspar Neher (1897--1962)', in The Cambridge Introduction to Scenography, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 44--51. |
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279 | (8) |
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22 `Production and Metaphysics', in The Theatre and its Double, trans. Victor Corti, London: John Calder, pp. 23--33. |
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287 | (12) |
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23 `Myth and Theatre Laboratories', in Christopher Innes (ed.), Avant Garde Theatre 1892--1992, London: Routledge, pp. 125--36. |
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299 | (14) |
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24 `After Ideology: Heiner Muller and the Theatre of Catastrophe', in Dan Friedman (ed.), The Cultural Politics of Heiner Muller, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, pp. 121--29. |
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313 | (10) |
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25 `1789', Drama Review, 15, pp. 73--91. |
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323 | (20) |
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26 `Notes on Political Street Theatre, Paris: 1968, 1969', Drama Review, 13, pp. 111--18. |
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343 | (8) |
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27 `Make-believe: Societas Raffaello Sanzio do theatre', in Joe Kelleher and Nicholas Ridout (eds), Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion, Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 175--87. |
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351 | (14) |
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28 `Spectacle, Synergy and Megamusicals: The Global-Industrialisation of the Live-Entertainment Economy', in James Curran (ed.), Media Organisations in Society, London: Arnold, pp. 69--83. |
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29 `The Digital Double', in Gavin Carver and Colin Beardon (eds), New Visions in Performance: The Impact of Digital Technologies, Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger, pp. 13--18. |
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381 | (10) |
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PART III REPRESENTATION AND RECEPTION |
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30 `Women's Suffrage Drama', in Maroula Joannou and June Purvis (eds), The Women's Suffrage Movement: New Feminist Essays, Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 127--39. |
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391 | (14) |
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31 `A Propertyless Theatre for the Propertyless Class', in Raphael Samuel, Ewan MacColl and Stuart Cosgrove (eds), Theatres of the Left 1880--1935: Workers' Theatre Movements in Britain and America, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1985), pp. 77--98. |
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32 `Modern Dance in the Third Reich: Six Positions and a Coda', in Susan Leigh Foster (ed.), Choreographing History, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 165--76. |
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427 | (14) |
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33 `Reading The Blacks through the 1956 Preface: Politics and Betrayal', in Clare Finburgh, Carl Lavery and Maria Shevtsova (eds), Jean Genet: Performance and Politics, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 68--78. |
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441 | (12) |
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34 `Performance, Community, Culture', in The Politics of Performance: Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention, London: Routledge, pp. 29--40. |
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453 | (14) |
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35 `The Politics of Representation in DV8's Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men and Adventures in Motion Picture's Swan Lake', pp. 467--73, adapted from `Identity Politics', in The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities, 2nd edn, Abingdon: Routledge, 2007. |
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467 | (8) |
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36 `ORLAN's Performative Transformations of Subjectivity', in Peggy Phelan and Jill Lane (eds), The Ends of Performance, New York: New York University Press, pp. 285--92. |
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475 | (12) |
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37 `Addenda, Phenomenology, Embodiment: Cyborgs and Disability Performance', in Susan Broadhurst and Josephine Machon (eds), Performance and Technology, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 169--80. |
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487 | (12) |
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38 `Performing Like an Asylum Seeker: Paradoxes of Hyper-Authenticity', Research in Drama Education, 13, pp. 159--70. |
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39 `The Role of National Theatres in an Age of Globalization', in Steve Wilmer (ed.), National Theatres in a Changing Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 228--38. |
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40 `There is a Word for People Like You: Audience. The Spectator as Bad Witness and Bad Voyeur', in Judith Helmer and Florian Malzacher (eds), Not Even a Game Anymore: The Theatre of Forced Entertainment, Berlin: Alexander Verlag, pp. 121--35. |
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Name Index |
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