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In Place of a Show: What Happens Inside Theatres When Nothing Is Happening

Autor Augusto Corrieri
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 noi 2017
In Place of a Show is a compelling account of Western theatre buildings in the 21st century: theatres stripped of their primary purpose, lying empty, preserved as museums, or demolished. Playfully combining first-person narratives, scholarly research and visual documents, Augusto Corrieri explores the material and imaginative potentials of these places, charting interconnections between humans, birds, vegetation, and the beguiling animations of inanimate things, such as walls, curtains and seats. Across four chapters we learn of the uncanny dismantling and reconstitution of a German Baroque auditorium during the Second World War; the phantasmal remains of a demolished music hall in London's East End; a Renaissance Italian theatre, fleetingly transformed into an aviary by the appearance of a swallow; and a lavish opera house emerging from the Amazon rainforest. In these pages we are invited to discover theatres as sites of anomalous encounters and surprising coincidences: places that might reveal the performative entanglement of human and nonhuman worlds.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350054448
ISBN-10: 1350054445
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 30 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 215 x 139 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:NIPPOD
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

The book is a creative work in its own right that moves between different writing registers, makes playful use of numerous visual documents, and offers a fundamentally poetic reading experience that will appeal to both specialists and the general reader

Notă biografică

Augusto Corrieri is a London-based artist and writer. First trained as a sleight of hand magician, in 2002 he graduated in Theatre at Dartington College of Arts, and since then has presented numerous live works for theatres and galleries in the UK and across Europe. In his writing he has explored the poetics of performance and the entanglement of human and non-human worlds.

Cuprins

IntroductionChapter 1. Residenztheater: the dismantled auditoriumChapter 2. Dalston Theatre: progress report on a demolished buildingChapter 3. Teatro Olimpico: the avian theatreChapter 4. Teatro Amazonas: "the opera house in the jungle"AfterwordImage CreditsBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Augusto Corrieri demands a critical consideration of dormant, repurposed, and surviving théâtre à l'italienne (or "Italianate stage"), arguing that the persistence of the spaces invites theatre scholars to consider and reemphasize nonhuman and overlooked theatrical phenomena . Corrieri's writing moves seamlessly through instances of performance philosophy, theatre history, visual analysis, and travel blogging. His unique perspective and methodology offer new connections between history, theory, and scholarship of recent site-based and immersive theatre practices.
The student of theatre can certainly find a good deal of objective and often surprising information about the subjects of the study here, but the real delight of the book is in how the author uses the story of the theatres ... to create a series of illuminating ... associations ... Each section engagingly presents its information, as one expects from a thoughtful and well-crafted essay, but it adds to this the pleasure of unexpected associations and an almost musical flow of discourse.