Clockfire
Autor Jonathan Ballen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 sep 2006
Shortlisted for the Manitoba Book Awards in the category of Most Promising Writer
Talented newcomer Jonathan Ball’s Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce – plays in which, for example, the director burns out the sun, actors murder their audience, and the laws of physics are flagrantly violated. The poems in one sense replace the need for drama, and are predicated on the idea that modern theatre lacks both 'clocks' and 'fire' and thus fails to offer its audiences immediate, violent engagement. They sometimes resemble the scores for Fluxus 'happenings,' but they replace the casual aesthetic and DIY simplicity of Fluxus art with something more akin to the brutality of Artaud’s theatre of cruelty. Italo Calvino as rewritten by H. P. Lovecraft, Ball’s 'plays' break free of the constraints of reality and artistic category to revel in their own dazzling, magnificent horror.
Talented newcomer Jonathan Ball’s Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce – plays in which, for example, the director burns out the sun, actors murder their audience, and the laws of physics are flagrantly violated. The poems in one sense replace the need for drama, and are predicated on the idea that modern theatre lacks both 'clocks' and 'fire' and thus fails to offer its audiences immediate, violent engagement. They sometimes resemble the scores for Fluxus 'happenings,' but they replace the casual aesthetic and DIY simplicity of Fluxus art with something more akin to the brutality of Artaud’s theatre of cruelty. Italo Calvino as rewritten by H. P. Lovecraft, Ball’s 'plays' break free of the constraints of reality and artistic category to revel in their own dazzling, magnificent horror.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781552452363
ISBN-10: 1552452360
Pagini: 103
Dimensiuni: 150 x 224 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:NONE
Editura: Coach House Press
Colecția Coach House Books
Locul publicării:Canada
ISBN-10: 1552452360
Pagini: 103
Dimensiuni: 150 x 224 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:NONE
Editura: Coach House Press
Colecția Coach House Books
Locul publicării:Canada
Recenzii
‘In these spare, nightmarish theatrescapes, Ball directs our ‘impossible dreams’ by blurring the script between actor and audience, the real and the staged, the lived and the dreamed, the self and the other ... At times reading more as horror-film treatments than prose poems (no doubt Ball’s intention),Clockfire finds its strength in irony.’
– Winnipeg Free Press
‘[Ball is] one of our most exciting young poets.’ – Robert Kroetsch, author of The Studhorse Man
Notă biografică
Jonathan Ball is the author of Ex Machina. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Calgary, and is the former editor of the literary journal dandelion. He lives in Winnipeg.
Descriere
Talented newcomer Jonathan Ball’s Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce.