Theatre in crisis? - performance manifestoes for a new century
Caridad Suich (Author), Caridad Svich (Editor)
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, where it has been and where it might be going.
Print Book, English, 2002
Manchester University Press, 2002
288 sidor ; 21.7 cm
9780719062919, 0719062918
1026779786
List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsTheatre in crisis?: Performance manifestos for a new century - snapshots of a time - Maria M. Delgado and Caridad SvichTheatre in crisis? Living memory in an unstable time - Caridad SvichSome quick thoughts on theatre and its future - Oliver Mayer, Jorge Cortiñas, Neena Beber, Craig LucasCrisis as practice: Strategies, concepts and working decisionsThe comforts of crisis - Jim CarmodySome words about the theater today - Roberta LevitowSeeing through the national and global stereotypes: British theatre in crisis - Peter Lichtenfels and Lynette HunterThe state of reviewing today - Michael BillingtonCritical path - Claire H. MacDonaldThose who can do teach - Anna FurseHold your nerve: Notes for a young playwright - Phyllis NagyAgainst pessimism - Max Stafford-ClarkTheatre and identity: Negotiating doubt and passionMore enterprise in walking naked - Len BerkmanEducating the audience: Sharing the process - DD KuglerOne the death of theatre: A call to action - Tori Haring-SmithDancing with the dead man: Notes on a theatre for the future of Europe - John LondonBlack Theatre at the turn of the millenium - Kia CorthronThe crisis of label - Alice TuanNotes on opera at the end of the century - Ricardo SzwarcerWhat is to be done? : Theatre off the mapThe question of culture - Peter SellarsThe crisis of theater? The theatre of crisis! - Dragan KlaicScavenging for home (or how I learned to take refuge in live theater while worrying about the bomb) - Lisa D’AmourStealing kisses - Paul HeritageA theatre of monsters: Live performance in the age of digital media - Matthew CauseyThe moment of realised actuality - Andy LavenderLooking forward, looking back: Theatre and the spiritual, messages to the new worldWhen an angel goes through the stage - Jon FosseBad Glamour - Erik EhnHeat Bath - Matthew MaguireTheatre of the mind: A fugue in two parts - Shelley BercAn evangelical capitalist: Message in a bottle to the next millenium of Robinson Crusoes in proscenium - Ruth MargraffPoor Toms a cold: Reflections on the modern theater in crisis - Martin EpsteinThe theatre of good intentions - Mac WellmanLetter to a young practitioner - Goat IslandAfterword -- .