In this engrossing study, Elinor Fuchs explores the multiple worlds of theater after modernism. She begins with the decline of character, once the central link between the artist and the spectator. In theatrical modernism Fuchs sees a series of strategies to compensate for this decline. Postmodern theater no longer greets the demotion of character with anxiety, despair, or satisfaction--as in Pirandello, Beckett, or Brecht--but puts in its stead a multiple subject, a protean spectator, and a dispersed field of attention.
In this engrossing study, Elinor Fuchs explores the multiple worlds of theater after modernism. She begins with the decline of character, once the central link between the artist and the spectator. In theatrical modernism Fuchs sees a series of strategies to compensate for this decline. Postmodern theater no longer greets the demotion of character with anxiety, despair, or satisfaction--as in Pirandello, Beckett, or Brecht--but puts in its stead a multiple subject, a protean spectator, and a dispersed field of attention.
Introduction Part I: Modern Retrospect 1. Character: Its Rise and Fall 2. The Mysterium and the Re-Allegorization of Modern Drama 3. Reading Against the Grain Part II: Theater After Modernism 4. Signalling Through the Signs: Thinking Theater After Derrida 5. Play as Landscape: Another Version of Pastoral 6. Staging the Obscene Body 7. Theater as Shopping 8. Postmodernism and the "Scene" of Theater Reviews and Articles 1979¿1993: Accounts of an Emerging Aesthetic 1979 Des McAnuff's Leave it to Beaver is Dead Richard Schechner's The Balcony 1982 Andrei Serban's The Marriage of Figaro 1983 The Death of Character 1985 Peter Sellars's The Count of Monte Cristo 1986 Robert Wilson's Alcestis 1988 Elizabeth LeCompte and The Wooster Group's Frank Dell's The Temptation of Saint Antony 1989 Misunderstanding Postmodernism: Joanne Akalaitis's Cymbeline 1993 The AIDS Quilt and The Performance of Mourning
Introduction Part I: Modern Retrospect 1. Character: Its Rise and Fall 2. The Mysterium and the Re-Allegorization of Modern Drama 3. Reading Against the Grain Part II: Theater After Modernism 4. Signalling Through the Signs: Thinking Theater After Derrida 5. Play as Landscape: Another Version of Pastoral 6. Staging the Obscene Body 7. Theater as Shopping 8. Postmodernism and the "Scene" of Theater Reviews and Articles 1979¿1993: Accounts of an Emerging Aesthetic 1979 Des McAnuff's Leave it to Beaver is Dead Richard Schechner's The Balcony 1982 Andrei Serban's The Marriage of Figaro 1983 The Death of Character 1985 Peter Sellars's The Count of Monte Cristo 1986 Robert Wilson's Alcestis 1988 Elizabeth LeCompte and The Wooster Group's Frank Dell's The Temptation of Saint Antony 1989 Misunderstanding Postmodernism: Joanne Akalaitis's Cymbeline 1993 The AIDS Quilt and The Performance of Mourning
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