Postdramatic Theatre

ISBN-13: 9780415268127 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 224 str.

Hans-Thies Lehmann; Karen Jurs-Munby

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Newly adapted for the Anglophone reader, this is an excellent translation of Hans-Thies Lehmann s groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms that have developed since the late 1960s, which has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theatre.

In looking at the developments since the late 1960s, Lehmann considers them in relation to dramatic theory and theatre history, as an inventive response to the emergence of new technologies, and as an historical shift from a text-based culture to a new media age of image and sound.

Engaging with theoreticians of 'drama' from Aristotle and Brecht, to Barthes and Schechner, the book analyzes the work of recent experimental theatre practitioners such as Robert Wilson, Tadeusz Kantor, Heiner Muller, the Wooster Group, Needcompany and Societas Raffaello Sanzio.

Illustrated by a wealth of practical examples, and with an introduction by Karen Jurs-Munby providing useful theoretical and artistic contexts for the book, Postdramatic Theatre is an historical survey expertly combined with a unique theoretical approach which guides the reader through this new theatre landscape.

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Preface to the English Edition  1. Prologue  2. Drama  Drama and Theatre  Drama and Dialectic  3. Pre-histories  Towards a Prehistory of Postdramatic Theatre  A Short Look Back at the Historical Avant-gardes  4. Panorama of Postdramatic Theatre  Beyond Dramatic Action: Ceremony, Voices in Space, Landscape  Postdramatic Theatrical Signs  Examples  5. Performance  Theatre and Performance  The Present of Performance  6. Aspects: Text - Space - Time - Body - Media  Text  Space  Time  Body  Media  7. Epilogue  8. Afterword  Notes  Bibliography  Index