Few have had quite as much impact in both the academy and in the world of theatre production as Richard Schechner. For more than four decades his work has challenged conventional definitions of theatre, ritual and performance. When this seminal collection first appeared, Schechner's approach was not only novel, it was revolutionary: drama is not just something that occurs on stage, but something that happens in everyday life, full of meaning, and on many different levels. Within these pages he examines the connections between Western and non-Western cultures, theatre and dance, anthropology, ritual, performance in everyday life, rites of passage, play, psychotherapy and shamanism.
By:
Richard Schechner
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 32mm
Weight: 472g
ISBN: 9780415314558
ISBN 10: 0415314550
Series: Routledge Classics
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 21 August 2003
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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General/trade
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ELT Advanced
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Author's Note; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The fan and the web; 1. Approaches; 2. Actuals; 3. Drama, script, theater, and performance; 4. From ritual to theater and back: the efficacy-entertainment braid; 5. Towards a poetics of performance; 6.Selective inattention; 7. Ethology and theater; 8. Magnitudes of performance; References; Index
Richard Schechner (1938-). One of contemporary theatre's most celebrated directors, he is also a world-renowned artist and scholar.
Reviews for Performance Theory
'Reading Performance Theory by Richard Schechner again, three decades after its first edition, is like meeting an old friend and finding out how much of him/her has been with you all along this way.' -- Augusto Boal
