The Politics of Jean Genet's Late Theatre Spaces of Revolution

by Finburgh, Clare; Lavery, Carl; Shevtsova, Maria

• ISBN13: 9781403994806
• ISBN10: 1403994803
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-12
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Jean Genet: Performance and Politics is the first book to explore the broad political significance of Genet's performance practice by focusing on his radical experiments, polemical subjects and formal innovations in theater, film and dance. Its new approach brings together the diverse aspects of Genet's work through essays by international scholars and interviews with such key theater directors as Richard Schechner, Terry Hands, Cornerstone Theatre and Jean-Baptiste Sastre.

Author Biography

CLARE FINBURGH is Lecturer in  Modern Drama at the University of Essex, UK. She has published numerous articles on Jean Genet and contemporary French theatre.

Table of Contents

Introduction--C.Finburgh, C.Lavery & M.Shevtsova * SETTING THE STAGE * Genet in His 'Humour'--M.Corvin * From Theatricality to Performance Theory-The Screens--D.Bradby * The Theatre of Genet in Sociological Perspective--M.Shevtsova * PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS * Genet's The Screens as Media Allegory--D.Fieni * Reading The Blacks Through the 1956 Preface: Politics and Betrayal C.Lavery * 'Micro-Treatise on a Mini-Politics': Genet, Individualism and Collectivity--C.Finburgh * GENET AND CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE * A Graveyard in the City: Site-Specific Performance and The Revolution of Everyday Life--C.Lavery * Dancing the Impossible: Kazuo Ohno, Lindsay Kemp and Our Lady of the Flowers--M.Hargreaves * Jean, Ron, Franko and Me: Genet, Body Art and Abjection--C.Lavery & P.Woodward * The Blacks and Its Impact on African American Theatre in the United States--J.Warrick * Las criadas, Genet and Spain--M.M.Delgado * GENET: CINEMA AND DANCE * Corporeographies: Queer Dance in 'adame Miroir and Un chant d'amour--E.Stephens * Genet and Cinema: Adaptation and Influence--J.Giles * Joseph Strick interviewed by C.Lavery * PERFORMING GENET * Bill Rauch and Lynn Jeffries of Cornerstone Theatre interviewed by C.Lavery (The Screens/Los biombas, 1998) * Jean-Baptiste Sastre interviewed by C.Finburgh (The Screens, 2004) * Terry Hands interviewed by C.Lavery (The Balcony, 1971/1987) * Colin Chambers interviewed by C.Lavery (RSC Genet season, 1987) * Richard Schechner interviewed by C.Lavery (The Balcony, 1979/80) * More Holes Than Blanket: Rehearsal Process and Political Process in Genet's Theatre--R.Yarrow * Index

Introduction--C.Finburgh, C.Lavery & M.Shevtsova * SETTING THE STAGE * Genet in His 'Humour'--M.Corvin * From Theatricality to Performance Theory-The Screens--D.Bradby * The Theatre of Genet in Sociological Perspective--M.Shevtsova * PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS * Genet's The Screens as Media Allegory--D.Fieni * Reading The Blacks Through the 1956 Preface: Politics and Betrayal C.Lavery * 'Micro-Treatise on a Mini-Politics': Genet, Individualism and Collectivity--C.Finburgh * GENET AND CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE * A Graveyard in the City: Site-Specific Performance and The Revolution of Everyday Life--C.Lavery * Dancing the Impossible: Kazuo Ohno, Lindsay Kemp and Our Lady of the Flowers--M.Hargreaves * Jean, Ron, Franko and Me: Genet, Body Art and Abjection--C.Lavery & P.Woodward * The Blacks and Its Impact on African American Theatre in the United States--J.Warrick * Las criadas, Genet and Spain--M.M.Delgado * GENET: CINEMA AND DANCE * Corporeographies: Queer Dance in 'adame Miroir and Un chant d'amour--E.Stephens * Genet and Cinema: Adaptation and Influence--J.Giles * Joseph Strick interviewed by C.Lavery * PERFORMING GENET * Bill Rauch and Lynn Jeffries of Cornerstone Theatre interviewed by C.Lavery (The Screens/Los biombas, 1998) * Jean-Baptiste Sastre interviewed by C.Finburgh (The Screens, 2004) * Terry Hands interviewed by C.Lavery (The Balcony, 1971/1987) * Colin Chambers interviewed by C.Lavery (RSC Genet season, 1987) * Richard Schechner interviewed by C.Lavery (The Balcony, 1979/80) * More Holes Than Blanket: Rehearsal Process and Political Process in Genet's Theatre--R.Yarrow * Index