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Black Box
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contemporary stage scholarship
Dim
drama
dramaturgical theory
Duck
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experimental theatre
Face To Face
Follow
Hold
invisible cities
Jonathan Ball
Labyrinth
Makeup
North
performance studies
performative writing
Phantom
poetics
prose poem
Scramble
Sky
Smooth
speculative performance scenarios
Spotlight
Stacks
stage
Tattoos
theatre philosophy
Tickets
Tonight
Vice Versa
Violated
Wild Duck
Wo
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138122055
- Weight: 580g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 11 Apr 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Imagined Theatres collects theoretical dramas written by some of the leading scholars and artists of the contemporary stage. These dialogues, prose poems, and microfictions describe imaginary performance events that explore what might be possible and impossible in the theatre.
Each scenario is mirrored by a brief accompanying reflection, asking what they might mean for our thinking about the theatre. These many possible worlds circle around questions that include:
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- In what way is writing itself a performance?
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- How do we understand the relationship between real performances that engender imaginary reflections and imaginary conceptions that form the basis for real theatrical productions?
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- Are we not always imagining theatres when we read or even when we sit in the theatre, watching whatever event we imagine we are seeing?
Daniel Sack is Assistant Professor of English and Commonwealth Honors College at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
