New Theatre Quarterly 73

by Edited by Simon Trussler , Clive Barker

• ISBN13: 9780521535885
• ISBN10: 0521535883
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-25
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theatre history has a contemporary relevance, that theatre studies need a methodology, and that theatre criticism needs a language. Articles in volume 73 include: Performance, Embodiment, Voice: the Theatre/Dance Cross-overs of Dodin, Bausch, and Forsythe; The Performative Self: Improvisation for Self and Other; The Events of June 1848: the 'Monte Cristo' Riots and the Politics of Protest; Culture, Memory, and American Performer Training; 'The Maker and the Tool': Charles Parker, Documentary Performance, and the Search for a Popular Culture; Simple Pleasures: the Ten-Minute Play, Overnight Theatre, and the Decline of the Art of Storytelling; Archive or Memory? The Detritus of Live Performance; NTQ Reports and Announcements; NTQ Book Reviews.

Table of Contents

1. Performance, embodiment, voice: the theatre/dance cross-overs of Dodin, Bausch, and Forsythe Maria Shevtsova

2. The performative self: improvisation for self and other Ruth Quinn

3. The events of June 1848: the 'Monte Cristo' riots and the politics of protest Victor Emeljanow

4. Culture, memory, and American performer training Ian Watson

5. 'The Maker and the Tool': Charles Parker, documentary performance, and the search for a popular culture David Watt

6. Simple pleasures: the ten-minute play, overnight theatre, and the decline of the art of storytelling Rick Mitchell

7. Archive or memory? the detritus of live performance Matthew Reason

8. NTQ reports and announcements

NTQ book reviews.