Re-Framing the Theatrical
Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Landscapes for Performance
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780230524651
Subjects: Theatre, drama; Theory (Performing Arts); Performing Arts/Dance; Film & Video - Direction & Production; Television - General; Theater - Direction & Production; Performing Arts / Theater / Direction & Production; General; Performing Arts; Philosophy
Description: "Alison Oddey takes us on a spectator's journey, engaging with art forms that cross boundaries of categorization. She examines how these cross-art forms provoke a solo spectator-protagonist, and how the work becomes meditative and spiritual. In questioning the role of the spectator and the director, Oddey considers how a re-thinking and reclaiming of physical and artistic forms has contributed to a new kind of making theatre-art, searching for space and contemplation in a hectic twenty-first-century landscape. Highlighting the work of director Deborah Warner and of artists Heather Ackroyd, Dan Harvey and Graeme Miller, Oddey provocatively demonstrates the spectator as centre of the artistic experience, in an exciting and innovative analysis of the many changes taking place in contemporary performance."--BOOK JACKET.