Postdramatic theatre /
Hans-Thies Lehmann's groundbreaking study of the new theater forms that have developed since the late 1960s has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theater. Postdramatic Theatre refers to theater after drama. Despite their diversity, the new forms and aesth...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the German. |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2006.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Publisher description |
| Summary: | Hans-Thies Lehmann's groundbreaking study of the new theater forms that have developed since the late 1960s has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theater. Postdramatic Theatre refers to theater after drama. Despite their diversity, the new forms and aesthetics that have evolved have one essential quality in common. They no longer focus on the dramatic text. Lehmann offers a historical survey combined with a unique theoretical approach, illustrated by a wealth of practical examples, to guide the reader through this new theater landscape. He considers these developments in relation to dramatic theory and theater history, and as an inventive response to the emergence of new technologies and a historical shift from a text-based culture to a new media age of image and sound. Engaging with theoreticians of drama and theater from Aristotle, Hegel, Szondi and Brecht to Barthes, Lyotard and Schechner, the book analyzes the work of recent experimental theater practitioners such as Robert Wilson, Tadeusz Kantor, Heiner Muller, The Wooster Group, Needcompany and Societas Raffaello Sanzio. This excellent translation is newly adapted for the Anglophone reader, including an introduction by Karen Jurs-Munby which provides useful theoretical and artistic contexts for the book. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 214 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-207) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0415268125 9780415268127 0415268133 9780415268134 |