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1 online resource |
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Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history |
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Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Actor-Network Dramaturgies -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Theatre Actor-Networks Between Argentina and France -- A Study in Human/Non-Human Relationships -- Towards an Actor-Network Dramaturgical Vision -- Structure of the Work -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Copi, Savary, the Grand Magic Circus, and Other Actors: The Actor-Network Dramaturgy of Good Bye Mister Freud -- Of Star Shapes and Lines: For an Actor-Network Dramaturgy of Good Bye Mister Freud -- Copi's Line -- Raúl Damonte Taborda -- Salvadora Medina Onrubia |
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The "Argentine of Paris" Assemblage -- Jérôme Savary's Line -- From Argentina to France -- Fleeing the French Draft: New York and Buenos Aires -- "It's at the Contrescarpe and Around That All Happens" -- The Line of the Grand Magic Circus -- Víctor García and Hilcia d'Aubeterre -- Alain Crombecque, Fernando Arrabal, and the Panic Movement -- From Arrabal's The Labyrinth to the Grand Magic Circus -- Converging Lines: The Copi-Savary Collaborative Pair -- The Good Bye Mister Freud Actor-Network -- Devising Good Bye Mister Freud: "Two Authors, or Everyone-Author, or No Author?" |
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The Director and the Machine -- Champagne and Money Problems -- Conclusions: The Far Reaches of Actor-Network Theory for Theatre Performance -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: A Tale of Two (and Other) Cities: The TSE Group from Buenos Aires to Paris -- Before the Di Tella: From the French Institute to the Costanera Beach -- The Capital of Heterotopia: The Di Tella Institute Supportive Actor-Network -- Romero Brest and the Grupo Pop -- Arias's Early Theatre Productions at the Di Tella: Towards the TSE Group -- Drácula Pop -- Aventuras 1 y 2: Camp Experiments with Text and Movement |
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Futura: A Postdramatic Scenic Essay -- Drácula's Actor-Network, Leo Castelli, and Lawrence Alloway -- Love & Song Kitsch and an Art Auction -- The TSE Group Name -- The Authoritarian City: Police Threats and a Banned Restroom -- Roberto Platé's The Restroom: The Last Straw -- TSE On Tour: The Unexpected Agency of a Pair of Socks and the Meeting with Copi -- The Panorama City: Eva Perón -- Copi's Myth-Busting Play -- Assembling All the Pieces -- Tepid, Puzzled, or Outright Hostile: The Initial Reception -- Transatlantic Actor-Networks: Shock and Violence |
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Platé's Set from Intermediary to Mediator -- "The Group Is Launched" -- The Nocturnal City: Les Escaliers du Sacré-Cœur -- Copi's Sulfurous Montmartre -- Downstage the Vespasienne, Upstage the Basilica: The Production at Aubervilliers -- Conclusions: Bridging Cities -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: The Argentine Network in Paris: Lavelli, Copi, the TSE Group, and Other Stealthy Actors at the Top of French Decentralization -- Becoming an Argentine of Paris: Jorge Lavelli's Line -- The Organización Latino Americana de Teatro and the Fondo Nacional de las Artes |
| Summary |
This book provides key critical tools to significantly broaden the readers perception of theatre and performance history: in line with posthuman thought, each chapter engages Actor-Network Theory and similar theories to reveal a comprehensive range of human and non-human agents whose collaborations impact theatre productions but are often overlooked. The volume also greatly expands the information available in English on the networks created by several Argentine artists. Through a transnational, transatlantic perspective, case studies refer to the lives, theatre companies, staged productions, and visual artworks of a number of artists who left Buenos Aires during the 1960s due to a mix of personal and political reasons. By establishing themselves in the French capital, queer playwright Copi and directors Jorge Lavelli, Alfredo Arias, and Jrme Savary, among others, became part of the larger group of intellectuals known as the Argentines of Paris and dominated the Parisian theatre scene between the 1980s and 90s. Focusing on these Argentine artists and their nomadic peripeteias, the study thus offers a detailed description of the complexity of agencies and assemblages inextricably involved in theatre productions, including larger historical events, everyday objects, sexual orientation, microbes, and even those agents at work well before a production is conceived. Stefano Boselli is Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Dramaturgy in the Theatre Department at the University of Nevada, USA, and Resident Dramaturg at the Nevada Conservatory Theatre. Stefano is also a Las Vegas and New York based theatre scholar and stage director who enjoys combining theory with practice. His book chapters on Latin American and French drama, theatre, and performance are forthcoming in collections. His articles on Italian, British, and US theatre have been published in several peer reviewed journals |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Argentine drama -- France -- Paris -- History
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Dramatists, Argentine.
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Theatrical producers and directors -- Argentina
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Theater -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century
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Actor-network theory.
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Actor-network theory.
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Argentine drama.
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Dramatists, Argentine.
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Theater.
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Theatrical producers and directors.
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Argentina.
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France -- Paris.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3031325230 |
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9783031325236 |
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