Richard Schechner - one of contemporary theatre's foremeost practitioners- explores in these essays the origins of performance, drama, and theatre and delineates the subtle differences between them. He emphasizes the complex interrelationships that form the basis of ethnological studies of ritual, performance in everyday life, environmental theatre, modern European and American theatre, Eurasian and African theatre, body-oriented dialogue and psychotherapies, play, crisis behaviour, rites of passage and mysticism (especially shamanism).
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"Schechner's views are usually provocative, his incidental comments are often acute, and he has a commendable gift for making unexpected connections." -- British Journal of Aesthetics
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Richard Schechner (1938-). One of contemporary theatre's most celebrated directors, he is also a world-renowned artist and scholar.
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Schechner's Performance Theory marks a watershed in the study of performance. It should be on the bookshelf of anyone concerned with theater, anthropology, or ritual.
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For the last hundred years or more, Greek tragedy has been understood as an outgrowth of rites celebrated annually at the Festival of Dionysus. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
konj kaiko, integral audience, orthodox theater, fight packages, accidental audience, lifelike art, primal ritual, aesthetic drama, unconscious scanning, aesthetic theater, redressive action, redirected activities, environmental theater, proscenium theater, song duel, trance dancer, symbolic time, deep acting, selective inattention, informal court, facial displays, irrevocable acts, ritual combat, western theater, social drama Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Papua New Guinea, The Performance Group, New York, Victor Turner, Mother Courage, Swiss Cheese, Living Theater, Robert Wilson, The Bacchae, The Bald Soprano, Australian Aborigines, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bundongo Forest, Paul Ekman, Spalding Gray, Sri Lanka, Christopher Knowles, Erving Goffman, Odin Teatret, The Drama Review, Van Gennep, Eugenio Barba, Frederick Eberstadt, Large Cloud of Magellan, Richard Schechner New!
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konj kaiko, integral audience, orthodox theater, fight packages, accidental audience, lifelike art, primal ritual, aesthetic drama, unconscious scanning, aesthetic theater, redressive action, redirected activities, environmental theater, proscenium theater, song duel, trance dancer, symbolic time, deep acting, selective inattention, informal court, facial displays, irrevocable acts, ritual combat, western theater, social drama Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Papua New Guinea, The Performance Group, New York, Victor Turner, Mother Courage, Swiss Cheese, Living Theater, Robert Wilson, The Bacchae, The Bald Soprano, Australian Aborigines, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bundongo Forest, Paul Ekman, Spalding Gray, Sri Lanka, Christopher Knowles, Erving Goffman, Odin Teatret, The Drama Review, Van Gennep, Eugenio Barba, Frederick Eberstadt, Large Cloud of Magellan, Richard Schechner New!
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- Mother Courage and Her Children (Modern Plays) by David Hare on 4 pages
- Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett on 4 pages
- Greek Religion: Belief and Experience by Thomas Harrison on page 2, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Towards a Poor Theatre (Theatre Arts (Routledge Paperback)) by Jerzy Grotowski on page 269, and Back Matter
- Ancient Art and Ritual by Jane Ellen Harrison on page 3, and Back Matter
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- Performance and Transformation: New Approaches to Late Medieval Spirituality by Mary A. Suydam on 14 pages
- Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance by Jon McKenzie on 5 pages
- Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theater by Jill Dolan on 4 pages
- Performance Studies: An Introduction by Richard Schechner in Front Matter, page 6, and Back Matter
- Drama/Theatre/Performance (The New Critical Idiom) by Simon Shepherd on page 118, page 154, and Back Matter
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