The risk theatre model of tragedy : gambling, drama, and the unexpected /
The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial intelligence, gene editing, globalization and mutual assured destruction ideologies. Tragedy, according to risk theater, puts...
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Victoria, British Columbia :
FriesenPress,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The structure of tragedy : how risk theatre is arranged. Temptation, wager, and cast
- Tempo and tragedy
- Forms of tragedy
- Part II. The philosophy of tragedy : how risk theatre works. The myth of the price you pay
- Four principles of countermonetization
- Part III. A poetics of tragedy : how to write risk theatre. The art of the all-in wager
- "The best laid plans of mice and men"
- Part IV. Beyond tragedy : risk theatre in relation to other genres and the role of risk theatre in modernity. Us and them
- Why risk theatre today?