Re-framing the theatrical
Subtitle: interdisciplinary landscapes for performance
By: Alison Oddey
Contributors: Palgrave Connect (Online service)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780230590724
Subjects: Performing arts; Philosophy
Description: Alison Oddey takes us on a spectator's journey, engaging with art forms that cross boundaries of categorisation. 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-238) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Basingstoke, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 3, 2009). Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
Table of contents: title: Reframing; title: Director-creator-collaborator: devising and technology; title: 'It's about the cross-over': cross-art performance; title: Re-thinking the theatrical frame: the opera director, video artist, and visual arts; title: Landscapes for performance: the geographies of Deborah Warner; title: Angels, soul and rebirth; title: Narratives of the city, interpretations of director, reflections of spectator; title: The art of sound: auditory directions; title: Performing silence.