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This second collection from the 2022 OCM Bocas Poetry Prize winner
re-imagines Shakespeare's Othello for the modern age, intertwining
the identities of 'immigrant' and 'Black'.
Winner of the Poetry Category OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean
Literature 2022. An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021. A White
Review Book of the Year 2021. Jason Allen-Paisant grew up in a
village in central Jamaica. 'Trees were all around,' he writes, 'we
often went to the yam ground, my grandmother's cultivation plot.
When I think of my childhood, I see myself entering a deep woodland
with cedars and logwood all around. [...] The muscular guango trees
were like beings among whom we lived.' Now he lives in Leeds, near
a forest where he goes walking. 'Here, trees represent an
alternative space, a refuge from an ultra-consumerist culture...'
And even as they help him recover his connections with nature,
these poems are inevitably political. As Malika Booker writes,
'Allen-Paisant's poetic ruminations deceptively radicalise
Wordsworth's pastoral scenic daffodils. The collection racializes
contemporary ecological poetics and its power lies in
Allen-Paisant's subtle destabilization of the ordinary dog walker's
right to space, territory, property and leisure by positioning the
colonised Black male body's complicated and unsafe reality in these
spaces.'
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What is the Theatre? (Hardcover)
Christian Biet, Christophe Triau; Translated by Jason Allen-Paisant, Joanne Brueton
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R4,134
Discovery Miles 41 340
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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What is the Theatre? is one of the most coherent and systematic
descriptions and analyses of the theatre yet compiled. Theatre is,
above all, spectacle. It is a fleeting performance, delivered by
actors and intended for spectators. It is a work of the body, an
exercise of voice and gesture addressed to an audience, most often
in a specific location and with a unique setting. This
entertainment event rests on the delivery of a thing promised and
expected - a particular and unique performance witnessed by
spectators who have come to the site of the performance for this
very reason. To witness theatre is to take into account the
performance, but it is also to take into account the printed text
as readable object and a written proposition. In this book,
Christian Biet and Christophe Triau focus on the practical,
theoretical and historical positions that the spectator and the
reader have had in relation to the locations that they frequent and
the texts that they handle. They adopt two approaches: analysing
the spectacle in its theatrical and historical context in an
attempt to seek out the principles and paradigms of approaching the
theatre experience on one hand, and analysing the dramaturgy of a
production in order to establish lines of interpretation and how to
read, represent and stage a text, on the other. This approach
allows us to better understand the ties that link those who
participate in the theatre to the practitioners who create
theatrical entertainment.
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What is the Theatre? (Paperback)
Christian Biet, Christophe Triau; Translated by Jason Allen-Paisant, Joanne Brueton
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R1,315
Discovery Miles 13 150
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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What is the Theatre? is one of the most coherent and systematic
descriptions and analyses of the theatre yet compiled. Theatre is,
above all, spectacle. It is a fleeting performance, delivered by
actors and intended for spectators. It is a work of the body, an
exercise of voice and gesture addressed to an audience, most often
in a specific location and with a unique setting. This
entertainment event rests on the delivery of a thing promised and
expected - a particular and unique performance witnessed by
spectators who have come to the site of the performance for this
very reason. To witness theatre is to take into account the
performance, but it is also to take into account the printed text
as readable object and a written proposition. In this book,
Christian Biet and Christophe Triau focus on the practical,
theoretical and historical positions that the spectator and the
reader have had in relation to the locations that they frequent and
the texts that they handle. They adopt two approaches: analysing
the spectacle in its theatrical and historical context in an
attempt to seek out the principles and paradigms of approaching the
theatre experience on one hand, and analysing the dramaturgy of a
production in order to establish lines of interpretation and how to
read, represent and stage a text, on the other. This approach
allows us to better understand the ties that link those who
participate in the theatre to the practitioners who create
theatrical entertainment.
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