An exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, it investigates the process of devising performance, theatre's interdisciplinary role, and the city's influence.
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'Certain Fragments . . . illuminate[s] . . . the more interesting aspects of contemporary British theatre.' - David Pattie, New Theatre Quarterly
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Tim Etchells is a writer, director and artist best known for his work leading Forced Entertainment. Based in Sheffield Etchells has written extensively on new performance and installation.
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This review is from: Certain Fragments: Texts and Writings on Performance (Paperback)
Forced Entertainment and Tim Etchells have been for the past decade or so, chewing on the edges of performance and theatre. This book is an excellent collection of texts that open up and demystify the experimental devising process. Etchells writes his theory much in the same way has he creates performance. A must for anyone into the fuzzy gaps between the various performance disciplines
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I use this book throughout the graduate program with MFA and PhD students in theatre and dance. They find in it things that they have been trying to articulate for themselves and are intellectually challenged and enriched as well as given encouragement for trying to express their own ideas about their practices. Has lots of other good things about it. Great combination of theory and practice and accessibility.
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A must for those interested in devised theatre.,
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This review is from: Certain Fragments: Texts and Writings on Performance (Paperback)
As a degree level theatre studies student, this was an invaluable text which gave a welcome insight into the Forced Entertainment theatre phenomenen. Not only does it offer analysis of their working process, it also offers an amusing collection of experiences and feelings that make the book thoroughly readable. A gem.
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Created to mark our 10th anniversary A Decade of Forced Entertainment is a speculative history of the company, a collage of fragments of previous works and a meditation on the place and processes of new performance. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
radio porridge, journey standing, performance writing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Club of No Regrets, Forced Entertainment, Speak Bitterness, Roy Cohn, New York, Ron Vawter, Made the Promise, Let the Water Run, Richard Lowdon, The Wooster Group, Look How I'm Crying Scene, Questions Scene, Tim Etchells, Troubled Scene, Terry O'Connor, Cathy Naden, Elvis Presley, Hugo Glendinning, Black City, Bloody Thirsty, Emanuelle Enchanted, Michael Atavar, Robin Arthur, Some Confusions, Drug Trip Scene New!
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Created to mark our 10th anniversary A Decade of Forced Entertainment is a speculative history of the company, a collage of fragments of previous works and a meditation on the place and processes of new performance. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
radio porridge, journey standing, performance writing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Club of No Regrets, Forced Entertainment, Speak Bitterness, Roy Cohn, New York, Ron Vawter, Made the Promise, Let the Water Run, Richard Lowdon, The Wooster Group, Look How I'm Crying Scene, Questions Scene, Tim Etchells, Troubled Scene, Terry O'Connor, Cathy Naden, Elvis Presley, Hugo Glendinning, Black City, Bloody Thirsty, Emanuelle Enchanted, Michael Atavar, Robin Arthur, Some Confusions, Drug Trip Scene New!
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- The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau on page 208
- What is it? by Rose Williams in Front Matter
- Three Sisters (TCG Translations) by Anton Chekhov on page 209
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (Taking Part) by Jack North on page 35
- No Regrets by Barbara Dawson Smith in Back Matter
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- Psychoanalysis and Performance by Patrick Campbell on page 72, page 198, and page 202
- Live: Art and Performance by Adrian Heathfield on page 99, and Back Matter
- Psychoanalysis and Performance by Patrick Campbell on page 198, and page 202
- The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance (Routledge Companions) by Paul Allain on page 146, and Back Matter
- Certain Fragments: Texts and Writings on Performance by Tim Etchells in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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