El. knyga: Radical Theatre: Greek Tragedy in the Modern World

This book opens a dialogue between the tragic theatre in ancient Athens and the multiple performances of the modern world. In five interconnected essays, Rush Rehm engages tragedy on its own terms, using our oldest theatre as inspiration for how we might shape the theatre of the future.
Part analysis, part polemic, Radical Theatre engages the aesthetic, political and ethical challenges of Greek tragedy as a means of confronting what tomorrow's theatre can do.

Rehm (drama and classics, Stanford U.) uses the word radical to point to ancient Greek tragedy as the root of modern theatre, but also to suggest the ability of theatre as capable of challenging and undermining accepted practice. In five essays he seeks to engage the original form of ancient tragedy through explorations of the performance space of Greek theater, tragedy's confrontation with fear, the relationship between freedom of agency and human constraints, the way tragedy dramatizes the ideology of the Athenian city-state and its empire, and the relationship between performance and temporality. Throughout he considers the lessons such investigations may have for modern theater. Distributed in the US by International Publishers Marketing. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)