Theatre and Everyday Life: An Ethics of Performance - Hardcover

Read, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138147087 ISBN 13: 9781138147089

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the experience of everyday life. It is a theatre which defines itself in terms of people and places rather than the idealised empty space of avant garde performance.

Read examines the relationship between an ethics of performance, a politics of place and a poetics of the urban environment. His book is a persuasive demand for a critical theory of theatre which is as mentally supple as theatre is physically versatile.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan Read is Director of Talks, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.

Review:

"[Alan Read] sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the experierce of everyday life. It is a theatre which defines itself in terms of people and places rather than the idealized empty space of avantgarde performance."
-"The Drama Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138147087
• ISBN 13: 9781138147089
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276