Writing and the modern stage : theater beyond drama / Julia Jarcho.
Jarcho, Julia| Call Number | 809.2/051 |
| Author | Jarcho, Julia, author. |
| Title | Writing and the modern stage : theater beyond drama / Julia Jarcho. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xvii, 267 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 May 2017). |
| Contents | Modernism's negative theatrics. Introduction: negative theatrics -- The presence of the stage, again -- Drama and the present: Peter Azondi and Bertolt Brecht -- The "wrong life" of performance: Adorno and the "primacy of the text" -- The readings. "Something stranger yet": theatrical distractions in Henry James and Gertrude Stein -- Henry James. The beast in the sentence: writing theatrical space -- "Something [...] had been wanted in the picture": disrupted image in The ambassadors -- Gertrude Stein. Beyond antitheatricality: "plays" -- Negativity beyond contradiction: Paisieu's differential landscape the (dis- -- )continuous present: Four saints in three acts -- "Gesture towards the universe": theater as utopia in Waiting for Godot -- "What is there to recognize?": Godot and the dramatic present -- "All the dead voices": writing and the real -- Utopia in attendance -- Towards a new monologue: Beckett's "scribal act" -- Beyond the present: playwrights at the turn of the millennium. Introduction: staging writing today -- Finding texts -- The silly word "faithfulness": gatz -- The promise of "playwrighting": Suzan-Lori Parks -- "Watch me work": writing as (counter-) performance -- Writing the death of the last black man -- "Grave departures": the theatrics of mourning -- The burnin page -- "Land:/ho!": textual performance and theatrical utopia -- "Small, fierce creatures": Mac Wellman's auratic theater -- Mouthing off: a murder of crows -- The other axis -- "This will kill that": speculations -- Coda: girl gone. |
| Summary | It is time to change the way we talk about writing in theater. This book offers a new argument that reimagines modern theater's critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage. While performance studies, German Theaterwissenschaft, and even text-based drama studies have commonly envisioned theatrical performance as something that must operate beyond the limits of the textual imagination, this book shows how a series of writers have actively shaped new conceptions of theater's radical potential. Engaging with a range of theorists, including Theodor Adorno, Jarcho reveals a modern tradition of 'negative theatrics,' whose artists undermine the here and now of performance in order to challenge the value and the power of the existing world. This vision emerges through surprising new readings of modernist classics - by Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Samuel Beckett - as well as contemporary American works by Suzan-Lori Parks, Elevator Repair Service, and Mac Wellman. |
| Subject | Experimental theater 20th century History and criticism. Experimental drama 20th century History and criticism. |
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| Summary | It is time to change the way we talk about writing in theater. This book offers a new argument that reimagines modern theater's critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage. While performance studies, German Theaterwissenschaft, and even text-based drama studies have commonly envisioned theatrical performance as something that must operate beyond the limits of the textual imagination, this book shows how a series of writers have actively shaped new conceptions of theater's radical potential. Engaging with a range of theorists, including Theodor Adorno, Jarcho reveals a modern tradition of 'negative theatrics,' whose artists undermine the here and now of performance in order to challenge the value and the power of the existing world. This vision emerges through surprising new readings of modernist classics - by Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Samuel Beckett - as well as contemporary American works by Suzan-Lori Parks, Elevator Repair Service, and Mac Wellman. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 May 2017). |
| Contents | Modernism's negative theatrics. Introduction: negative theatrics -- The presence of the stage, again -- Drama and the present: Peter Azondi and Bertolt Brecht -- The "wrong life" of performance: Adorno and the "primacy of the text" -- The readings. "Something stranger yet": theatrical distractions in Henry James and Gertrude Stein -- Henry James. The beast in the sentence: writing theatrical space -- "Something [...] had been wanted in the picture": disrupted image in The ambassadors -- Gertrude Stein. Beyond antitheatricality: "plays" -- Negativity beyond contradiction: Paisieu's differential landscape the (dis- -- )continuous present: Four saints in three acts -- "Gesture towards the universe": theater as utopia in Waiting for Godot -- "What is there to recognize?": Godot and the dramatic present -- "All the dead voices": writing and the real -- Utopia in attendance -- Towards a new monologue: Beckett's "scribal act" -- Beyond the present: playwrights at the turn of the millennium. Introduction: staging writing today -- Finding texts -- The silly word "faithfulness": gatz -- The promise of "playwrighting": Suzan-Lori Parks -- "Watch me work": writing as (counter-) performance -- Writing the death of the last black man -- "Grave departures": the theatrics of mourning -- The burnin page -- "Land:/ho!": textual performance and theatrical utopia -- "Small, fierce creatures": Mac Wellman's auratic theater -- Mouthing off: a murder of crows -- The other axis -- "This will kill that": speculations -- Coda: girl gone. |
| Subject | Experimental theater 20th century History and criticism. Experimental drama 20th century History and criticism. |
| Multimedia |