Naming theatre [electronic resource] : demonstrative diagnosis in performance / by James Frieze.

Closely reading a range of performance work from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Naming Theatre is a ground-breaking study of theatre's growing obsession with technologies and effects of naming. How do theatre-makers such as Ping Chong, Anne Bogart, Suzan-Lori Parks, Forced...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Frieze, James
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2009.
Series:Performance interventions.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Improper Naming
  • Authorship: A Trick of the I
  • Assimilation: Sounding Through the Surface
  • Demonstration: Illustrative Irony
  • Diagnosis: Putting Medical History Under the Knife
  • Programming: The Designated Blueprint
  • Disclosure: Transcript and Testimony
  • Monstrosity: Branding the Phatic
  • Graphting: Plotting the Body as Puzzle
  • Supplement: Naming Critical Acts.