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Performing Epic or Telling Tales takes the new millennium as a
starting point for an exploration of the turn to narrative in
twenty-first-century theatre, which is often also a turn to
Graeco-Roman epic. However, the dominant focus of the volume is
less on 'what' the recent epic turn in the theatre consists of than
'why' it seems to be so prevalent: this turn is explained with
reference not only to the translation and scholarly histories of
the epics, but also to earlier performance traditions and, notably,
to recent theoretical debates relating to text-based 'drama' and
performance based 'theatre'. What is perhaps most remarkable about
this epic turn is not simply the sheer number of outstanding
performances that it has produced; it is also that recent practice
appears to have outstripped much theoretical discussion about
theatre. In chapters ranging from spoken word performances to
ballet, from the use of machines and technology to performances
that make space for voices occluded by the ancient epics,
Performing Epic or Telling Tales seeks to contextualize and explain
the 'narrative'/storytelling (re-)turn in recent live performances
- a turn that regularly entails engagement with ancient
Graeco-Roman epics, which have long provided poets, playwrights,
artists, and theatre makers with a storehouse of rich, often
perceived as 'raw', material. Refigured and refracted for the
modern era, the epics of ancient Greece and Rome are found to be
particularly revealing, and particularly 'telling' of the
contemporary wider cultural sphere.
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