Theatre and Everyday Life: An Ethics of Performance

by Alan Read

Book Overview

Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the experience of everyday life. It is a theatre which defines itself in terms of people and places rather than the idealised empty space of avant garde performance.

Read examines the relationship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415069416
• ISBN13: 9780415069410
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"