An international collection of essays by architects, artists and theorists of locality and space. New work by contributors including Mark Auge, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Anthony Vidler, Lebbeus Woods and Zaha Hadid is juxtaposed with seminal essays by Bernard Tschumi and Doreen Massey. Work on city space and architecture by radical young companies such as MUF and performance artist Graeme Millar is joined by challenging visions of orientation in the city by anthropologist Franco le Cecla and technologist William Mitchell. Together these essays build to reflect not only what it might mean to speak...
An international collection of essays by architects, artists and theorists of locality and space. New work by contributors including Mark Auge, Krzysz...
Theatre in the Expanded Field is a fiercely original, bold and daring exploration of the fields of theatre and performance studies and the received narratives and histories that underpin them. Rich with interdisciplinary reference, international, eclectic and broad-ranging in its examples, it offers readers a compelling and provocative reassessment of the disciplines, one that spans pre-history to the present day.
Sixty years ago, in 1962, Richard Southern wrote a remarkable book called The Seven Ages of the Theatre. It was unusual in its time for taking a...
Theatre in the Expanded Field is a fiercely original, bold and daring exploration of the fields of theatre and performance studies and the r...
Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the experience of everyday life. It is a theatre which defines itself in terms of people and places rather than the idealised empty space of avant garde performance.
Read examines the relationship between an ethics of performance, a politics of place and a poetics of the urban environment. His book is a persuasive demand for a critical theory...
Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this re...
