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Witty satire, political drama, transgressive social commentary,
mystical meditation; for years, these topics were banned from the
stage. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries decadent writers
turned to decadence as a means of responding to urban modernity,
and dramatists were no exception. Decadence offered these writers a
framework for exploring nonconformist identities and beliefs that
challenged narrow ideas about taste, decency, and progress, and
recurring motifs included queer sexualities and genders, elitism,
social class, degeneracy and decay. International in scope and
eclectic in content, this edited anthology is an authoritative and
accessible introduction to this fast-expanding field of decadent
literature . The first publication of its kind to deal specifically
with decadent dramatic works in the pre-modernist and modernist
periods, Decadent Plays breaks new ground by exploring how the
concept of decadence cuts across genre, styles, and culture, and by
including little-known works that are currently out-of-print.
Featuring work Oscar Wilde, Michael Field, Lesya Ukrainka,
Rachilde, Remy de Gourmont, Jean Lorrain, Leonid Andreyev, Gabriele
D’Annunzio, Maurice Maeterlinck, Izumi Kyoka, and Djuna Barnes,
this anthology includes a selection of mainstream and marginal
plays, some of which have been translated into English for the
first time. An essential and influential introduction to the
fast-expanding field of decadent literature, this edited anthology
is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students, and
specialists and non-specialists alike.
Immersive theatre currently enjoys ubiquity, popularity and
recognition in theatre journalism and scholarship. However, the
politics of immersive theatre aesthetics still lacks a substantial
critique. Does immersive theatre model a particular kind of
politics, or a particular kind of audience? What's involved in the
production and consumption of immersive theatre aesthetics? Is a
productive audience always an empowered audience? And do the terms
of an audience's empowerment stand up to political scrutiny? Beyond
Immersive Theatre contextualises these questions by tracing the
evolution of neoliberal politics and the experience economy over
the past four decades. Through detailed critical analyses of work
by Ray Lee, Lundahl & Seitl, Punchdrunk, shunt, Theatre
Delicatessen and Half Cut, Adam Alston argues that there is a tacit
politics to immersive theatre aesthetics - a tacit politics that is
illuminated by neoliberalism, and that is ripe to be challenged by
the evolution and diversification of immersive theatre.
Witty satire, political drama, transgressive social commentary,
mystical meditation; for years, these topics were banned from the
stage. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries decadent writers
turned to decadence as a means of responding to urban modernity,
and dramatists were no exception. Decadence offered these writers a
framework for exploring nonconformist identities and beliefs that
challenged narrow ideas about taste, decency, and progress, and
recurring motifs included queer sexualities and genders, elitism,
social class, degeneracy and decay. International in scope and
eclectic in content, this edited anthology is an authoritative and
accessible introduction to this fast-expanding field of decadent
literature . The first publication of its kind to deal specifically
with decadent dramatic works in the pre-modernist and modernist
periods, Decadent Plays breaks new ground by exploring how the
concept of decadence cuts across genre, styles, and culture, and by
including little-known works that are currently out-of-print.
Featuring work Oscar Wilde, Michael Field, Lesya Ukrainka,
Rachilde, Remy de Gourmont, Jean Lorrain, Leonid Andreyev, Gabriele
D’Annunzio, Maurice Maeterlinck, Izumi Kyoka, and Djuna Barnes,
this anthology includes a selection of mainstream and marginal
plays, some of which have been translated into English for the
first time. An essential and influential introduction to the
fast-expanding field of decadent literature, this edited anthology
is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students, and
specialists and non-specialists alike.
How is decadence being staged today – as a practice, issue,
pejorative, and as a site of pleasure? Where might we find it, why
might we look for it, and who is decadence for? This book is the
first monographic study of decadence in theatre and performance.
Adam Alston makes a passionate case for the contemporary relevance
of decadence in the thick of a resurgent culture war by focusing on
its antithetical relationship to capitalist-led growth, progress,
and intensified productivity. He argues that the qualities used to
disparage the study and practice of theatre and performance are the
very things we should embrace in celebrating their value –
namely, their spectacular uselessness, wastefulness, outmodedness,
and abundant potential for producing forms of creativity that flow
away from the ends and excesses of capitalism. Alston covers an
eclectic range of examples by Julia Bardsley (UK), Hasard Le Sin
(Finland), jaamil olawale kosoko (USA), Toco Nikaido (Japan),
Martin O’Brien (UK), Toshiki Okada (Japan), Marcel·lí Antúnez
Roca (Spain), Normandy Sherwood (USA), The Uhuruverse (USA), Nia O.
Witherspoon (USA), and Wunderbaum (Netherlands). Expect ruminations
on monstrous scenographies, catatonic choreographies, turbo-charged
freneticism, visions of the apocalypse – and what might lie in
its wake.
Theatre in the Dark: Shadow, Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary
Theatre responds to a rising tide of experimentation in theatre
practice that eliminates or obscures light. It brings together
leading and emerging practitioners and researchers in a volume
dedicated to exploring the phenomenon and showcasing a range of
possible critical and theoretical approaches. This book considers
the aesthetics and phenomenology of dark, gloomy and shadow-strewn
theatre performances, as well as the historical and cultural
significances of darkness, shadow and the night in theatre and
performance contexts. It is concerned as much with the experiences
elicited by darkness and obscured or diminished lighting as it is
with the conditions that define, frame and at times re-shape what
each might 'mean' and 'do'. Contributors provide surveys of
relevant practice, interviews with practitioners, theoretical
reflections and close critical analyses of work by key innovators
in the aesthetics of light, shadow and darkness. The book has a
particular focus on the work of contemporary theatre makers -
including Sound&Fury, David Rosenberg and Glen Neath, Lundahl
& Seitl, Extant, and Analogue - and seeks to deepen the
engagement of theatre and performance studies with what might be
called 'the sensory turn'. Theatre in the Dark explores
ground-breaking areas that will appeal to researchers,
practitioners and audiences alike.
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