Theatre, intimacy & engagement : the last human venue / Alan Read.
Theatre, intimacy & engagement : the last human venue / Alan Read.
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Houndmills, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Date
2008.
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N306.484/ 34
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English
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xvi, 323 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Self-evident: intimacy and engagement -- The human laboratory: parable of a recent past -- Nature, theatre politics: the present project -- A second naivete: the future constitution -- Pt. I. On The Social Life of Theatre : Towards a Science of Appearance -- The Ends of Politics -- A Singular Art --...
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Publisher
Houndmills, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2008.
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"The last human venue marks the location and moment of human beings' awareness of their own eventual extinction. Taking this sober end as an affirmative starting point Theatre, Intimacy & Engagement explores ways in which performance operates as an exciter of sentience, kick-starting our sense of being alive, acting as a pleasurable lengthening dev...
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Theatre, intimacy & engagement : the last human venue / Alan Read.
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Studies in international performance.
Studies in international performance.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N306.484/ 34
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74VK3NNl2Oxb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3NNl2Oxb
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9780230572614 (hbk.)
0230572618 (alk. paper)
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306.484
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991023842369702626
