Certain Fragments: Texts and Writings on Performance

by Etchells; Tim

• ISBN13: 9780415173834
• ISBN10: 0415173833
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-06-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Certain Fragmentsis an extraordinary exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, acknowledged to be 'Britain's most brilliant experimental theatre company'( Guardian), Certain Fragmentsinvestigates the processes of devising performance, the role of writing in an interdisciplinary theatre, and the influence of the city on contemporary art practice. Tim Etchells' unique and provocative voice shifts from intimate anecdote to critical analysis and back again. As in his theatre-making, Etchells disrupts traditional notions of creative, academic and intellectual work. The book is an exciting and radical fusion of story-telling and criticism. It also makes available for the first time, four seminal Forced Entertainment texts by Etchells.

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(6)
Introduction	15	(14)
Section I Essays
A Decade of Forced Entertainment	29	(19)
On Risk and Investment	48	(2)
Play On: Process and Collaboration	50	(21)
On Documentation and Performance	71	(5)
Eight Fragments on Theatre and the City	76	(8)
Replaying the Tapes of the Twentieth Century: An Interview with Ron Vawter	84	(10)
On Performance and Technology	94	(4)
On Performance Writing	98	(11)
On Performance and Film: Tuning In	109	(4)
Repeat Forever: Body, Death, Performance, Fiction	113	(21)
Section II Performance Texts
Introduction	133	(1)
(Let the Water Run its Course) to the Sea that Made the Promise	134	(8)
Emanuelle Enchanted (or a Description of this World as if it were a Beautiful Place)	142	(20)
Club of No Regrets	162	(17)
Speak Bitterness	179