Theatre, intimacy & engagement : the last human venue /
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| Author / Creator: | Read, Alan, 1956- |
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| Imprint: | Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. |
| Description: | xvi, 323 p., 24 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in international performance |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6678601 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Author's Preface
- Series Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Self-evident: intimacy and engagement
- The human laboratory: parable of a recent past
- Nature, theatre politics: the present project
- A second naivete: the future constitution
- Part I. On The Social Life of Theatre: Towards a Science of Appearance
- Introduction
- The Ends of Politics
- A Singular Art
- The Social Conditional
- Begin Again
- Sufficient Goods
- The Present Imperfect
- Discipline in Distress
- A Life in Theatre
- Theatre Returns
- Part II. On Performance as Such & On Human Performance in Particular
- 1. The Anthropological Machine
- 2. Nature Table
- Play ground
- Swimming pool
- Class room
- 3. Stage Play
- Acknowledging
- The imperative of performance
- In the infancy of theatre
- 4. Ring-Side
- 5. Redeemed Night
- Fear
- Fauna
- Fur
- 6. Infant Enthusiasm
- Infant
- Infant animal
- Interval
- Infant, animal, automata
- Infant 'inhuman' Auschwitz
- Part III. On The Part of Those Who Have No Part
- 7. The Distribution of the Sensible
- 8. Recalling the Collective
- 9. Forensic Display
- 10. Arrested Life
- 11. The Democracy Machine
- Memoir: Civil Service
- Memorial: Military Service
- Memory: Secret Service
- Part IV. In the Event of Extinction: Natural History & Its Ends
- Introduction
- Destination Nature
- Natural History
- In the Event of Extinction
- The Last Human Venue
- The Franciscan Model
- Postscript
- The paradox of the actor
- The parallax of the performer
- The Lazarus affect
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index