LEADER 03697oam 22007094a 450 001 9910793133303321 005 20220217004051.0 010 $a1-5261-3074-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000006670427 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5512446 035 $a(OCoLC)1085658558 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse72815 035 $a(DE-B1597)658982 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526130747 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006670427 100 $a20160908h20162013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aActs and apparitions$eDiscourses on the real in performance practice and theory, 1990?2010 /$fLiz Tomlin 210 1$aManchester, England :$cManchester University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (241 pages) 311 $a1-78499-376-X 311 $a0-7190-8372-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 210-221) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of figures -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart I: The discursive act -- $t1 Discourses of resistance: representation and the real in the twentieth-century avant-gardes -- $t2 Deconstructing the postdramatic: questions of mimesis, authorship and representation -- $tPart II: Apparitions of the real -- $t3 Quoting quotations: citational theory and contemporary characterisation -- $t4 Representing the real: verbatim practice in a sceptical age -- $t5 Re-membering the real: experiential challenges to the medium of theatrical representation -- $t6 From spect-actor to corporate player: reconfigurations of twenty-first-century audiences -- $tAfterword -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aActs and apparitions examines how new performance practices from the 1990s to the present day have been driven by questions of the real and the ensuing political implications of the concept's rapidly disintegrating authority.This book departs significantly from existing scholarship on contemporary performance in its rejection of the dramatic/postdramatic binary and its interrogation of previous applications of Derridean poststructuralism to theatrical representation and notions of the real.It offers new perspectives on the political analysis of contemporary theatre and performance across a wide range of models from Forced Entertainment and the Wooster Group, to Roland Schimmelpfennig and Howard Barker; from verbatim theatre to audio tours and the interactive performances of Ontroerend Goed. 606 $aAuthors and theater 606 $aTheater and philosophy 606 $aRealism 606 $aTheater$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aTheater$xHistory$y20th century 610 $aartistic development. 610 $adocumentary theatre tradition. 610 $adramatic representation. 610 $aexperiential realities. 610 $aperformance practices. 610 $aperformer. 610 $aphilosophical development. 610 $apolitical implications. 610 $apostdramatic deconstructions. 610 $apoststructuralist narrative. 610 $aradicalism. 610 $arepresentational practice. 610 $aspectator. 610 $atheatrical representations. 610 $averbatim methodologies. 615 0$aAuthors and theater. 615 0$aTheater and philosophy. 615 0$aRealism. 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 676 $a792.02/8 700 $aTomlin$b Liz$01544527 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793133303321 996 $aActs and apparitions$93798824 997 $aUNINA