The last half century has witnessed a profound confrontation with representation, the problem of the "real," and theater has provided much of the energy for this investigation. This is hardly surprising. No other medium has as its most apparent force the unsettling of perceptual realities;...

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1. Verfasser:	Pywell, Geoff (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Lewisburg Bucknell Univ. Press u.a. 1994
Schlagworte:	Philosophie Psychologie Acting > Philosophy Acting > Psychological aspects Experimental theater Performance art Theater and society Theater Wirklichkeit
Zusammenfassung:	The last half century has witnessed a profound confrontation with representation, the problem of the "real," and theater has provided much of the energy for this investigation. This is hardly surprising. No other medium has as its most apparent force the unsettling of perceptual realities; it is these experiences that form the core of Staging Real Things When the real is placed alongside the apparently real each is charged by the other and the frames of experience that distinguish actual from aesthetic reality are broken down. The fracturing of apprehension is seen in the figure of the actor who is suddenly visibly astride worlds, and in the supposedly ordinary scenic elements employed in certain plays that refuse to be fully absorbed by either reality or aesthetics. This work concentrates on the actual and the aesthetic cohabiting on the special province of the stage without undue fuss but with tremendous force Within such moments lies true theater, the tension between seeming and being stretched to a point of "cruelty."
Beschreibung:	177 S.
ISBN:	0838752748