Performing the Unstageable: Success, Imagination, Failure

by Karen Quigley

From the gouging out of eyes in Shakespeare's King Lear or Sarah Kane's Cleansed, to the adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, theatre has long been intrigued by the staging of challenging plays and impossible texts, images or ideas. Performing the Unstageable: Success, Imagination, Failure examines this phenomenon of what the theatre cannot do or has not been able to do at various points in its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135005545X
• ISBN13: 9781350055452
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"