Theatre and Event: Staging the European Century

by Adrian Kear

Book Overview

Theatre and Event: Staging the European Century, examines how, in these first decades of the twenty-first century, contemporary European theatre-makers have sought to consider the disastrous events of the twentieth century as the 'unfinished business' of the contemporary. Kear argues that by thinking through the logic of the event, and the theatre event especially, contemporary performance practice enables an affective interrogation of 'the event'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230008089
• ISBN13: 9780230008083
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"