This important new introductory textbook by a prime mover in the emergent field of Performance Studies is a defining moment for the discipline. It provides a lively and accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies. It includes discussion of the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games as well as the performances of every day life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the performing arts, anthropology, post-structuralism, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy and aesthetics. The text has been fully developed with input from leading teachers and trialled with students. User-friendly, with a special text design, it also includes the following features: Extracts from primary sources giving alternative voices and viewpoints Biographies of key thinkers 'Things to think about' and 'things to do' to stimulate fieldwork, classroom exercises and discussion Key reading lists for each chapter 20 line drawings and 173 b+w photographs drawn from private and public collections around the world.
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'Richard Schechner's work is crucial to exploring the tricky and sometimes dangerous territories of performance. Not only is he responsible for continually expanding the boundaries of the field but also for demystifying esoteric issues. His work reaches wide constituencies. Through his writings, I always discover new ways of looking at performance, and through performance at the world at large. His thoughts always renew my desire to change the world. - Guillermo Gomez-Pena, performance artist and writer, San Francisco 'This fecund and useful volume sets up lively possibilities for exploring the entire spectrum of behaviors, restored or otherwise that Schechner as scholar, editor, and practitioner, has been sorting out for years
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Richard Schechner is currently University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
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This long awaited book by Richard Schechner breaks the traditional boundaries of how theatre is to be studied. He assures us through numerous examples, comments, quotations, and theories how interrelated theatre is with life and life with theatre. To see performance as a part of life and as an extension of it is to see performance with a clarity that has never before been discussed in such depth. By the end of the book, which is probably more useful as a reference than even as a textbook that students read chapter by chapter (though it does offer great possibilities for creatively integrating in the classroom as it was intended), one has more questions than answers, and that is a good thing, because the questions become more focused and more relevant and more conducive to individual introspection. As a college professor in Theatre, I find that refreshing and valuable. This is a seminal work, and should certainly be on every theatre practitioner's bookshelf, if not in their hands. The book contains nudity and language in the examples of performance he gives, so is not suitable for children.
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Eugenio Barba, Victor Turner, Mami Wata, Bertolt Brecht, United States, Peter Brook, Roman Catholic, Native American, Cultural Revolution, Jacques Derrida, Los Angeles, Adrian Piper, Copyright Popperfoto, Desktop Theatre, Third World, Coco Fusco, Jerzy Grotowski, John Cage, Margaret Thompson, Michael Kirby, Nobel Prize, Plimoth Plantation, Robert Wilson, South Africa, Swan Lake New!
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Eugenio Barba, Victor Turner, Mami Wata, Bertolt Brecht, United States, Peter Brook, Roman Catholic, Native American, Cultural Revolution, Jacques Derrida, Los Angeles, Adrian Piper, Copyright Popperfoto, Desktop Theatre, Third World, Coco Fusco, Jerzy Grotowski, John Cage, Margaret Thompson, Michael Kirby, Nobel Prize, Plimoth Plantation, Robert Wilson, South Africa, Swan Lake New!
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- Mother Courage and Her Children (Modern Plays) by David Hare on 5 pages
- Ritual Process, The: Structure and Anti-Structure by Victor Turner on page 13, page 78, and Back Matter
- Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida on page 10, page 142, and Back Matter
- A Formalist Theatre by Michael Kirby on page 147, page 187, and Back Matter
- The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman on page 10, page 44, and Back Matter
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- The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance (Routledge Companions) by Paul Allain on 5 pages
- The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (John Hope Franklin Center Book) by Diana Taylor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Not the Other Avant-Garde: The Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance) by James M. Harding on page 3, and page 16
- Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theater by Jill Dolan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (John Hope Franklin Center Book) by Diana Taylor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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