Title Theatre and event : staging the European century / Adrian Kear

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Contents Song of the century: Jan Lauwers and Needcompany's Sad face/happy face trilogy -- Naming the event: Alvis Hermanis and Juanais Regas tetrises Sonja -- Falling into history: Romeo Castellucci and Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio's Tragedia endogonidia and Divina commedia -- Theatre in the open: Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes' The Persians and Coriolan/US, National Theatre Wales -- De-creating the step of the world: Faustin Linyekula and Studios Kabako's La création du monde 1923-2012, Pour en finir avec Bérénice, and more more more, future -- Afterword Summary "Theatre and Event: Staging the European Century", examines how, in these first decades of the twenty-first century, contemporary European theatre-makers have sought to consider the disastrous events of the twentieth century as the 'unfinished business' of the contemporary. Kear argues that by thinking through the logic of the event, and the theatre event especially, contemporary performance practice enables an affective interrogation of 'the event' of the European century. Examining the work of leading theatre companies, "Theatre and Event: Staging the European Century" offers detailed expositions and engaged analyses of key works by Needcompany (Belgium), Jaunais Rigas Teatris (Latvia), Societas Raffaello Sanzio (Italy), National Theatre Wales (UK), and Studios Kabako (France/Democratic Republic of the Congo). This book offers an original conception of the theatre event as an event which exists in relation to, and performatively historicises, other 'events', requiring a critical and creative practice of spectatorship to animate its political affects Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Theater -- Europe -- History -- 21st century Theater -- Production and direction -- Europe -- History -- 21st century PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General. Theater Theater -- Production and direction Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137372376 1137372370

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