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Re-Framing the Theatrical
Alison Oddey
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Description for Re-Framing the Theatrical
Paperback. This book takes us on a spectator's journey engaging with art forms that cross boundaries of categorization. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; APF; JFD; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Oddey questions the role of the spectator and director, and the nature of art works and performance. She provocatively demonstrates the spectator as centre of the artistic experience, a new kind of making theatre-art, revealing its spirit and nature; searching for space and contemplation in a hectic twenty-first century landscape.
Oddey questions the role of the spectator and director, and the nature of art works and performance. She provocatively demonstrates the spectator as centre of the artistic experience, a new kind of making theatre-art, revealing its spirit and nature; searching for space and contemplation in a hectic twenty-first century landscape.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349357086
SKU
V9781349357086
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Ref
99-15
About Alison Oddey
ALISON ODDEY is Visiting Professor of Contemporary Performance and Visual Culture at the University of Northampton, UK. As a broadcaster, she wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 series 'Stand-ups and Strumpets'. Her publications include The Potentials of Spaces, Performing Women and Devising Theatre.
Reviews for Re-Framing the Theatrical
'Alison Oddey - a highly regarded performance scholar - broke new ground with her first book on devising for theatre. In this latest intervention, Re-Framing the Theatrical , she makes some radical claims about performance, discussing spirituality, silence in performance, and the emergence of the spectator as performer-protagonist: key themes in contemporary practice and emerging theory.' - Professor Lizbeth Goodman, ... Read more