Closely reading a range of performance work from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Naming Theatre is a ground-breaking study of theater's growing obsession with technologies and effects of naming. How do theater-makers such as Ping Chong, Anne Bogart, Suzan-Lori Parks, Forced Entertainment, Lightwork, Ridiculusmus, Theodora Skipitares, Paula Vogel, and Riot Group intervene in naming practices across domains such as medicine, political activism, philosophy, horror films, television and print journalism, anthropology, advertising and brand development, semiotics, military...
Closely reading a range of performance work from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Naming Theatre is a ground-breaking study of the...
This book is the first substantial account of contemporary theatre s fixation with the processing and detection of evidence. Since the mid-1990s, across diverse branches of theatrical performance, truth has increasingly been figured in terms of means rather than ends, with procedures for the gathering of information becoming the focus of attention. This overarching turn to the forensic has been obscured by the critical tendency to treat genres discretely. Frieze reconsiders landmark works that have been used to constitute dominant genres, such as Blast Theory s Desert Rain...
This book is the first substantial account of contemporary theatre s fixation with the processing and detection of evidence. Since the mid-1990s, a...
