Beyond Failure: New Essays on the Cultural History of Failure in Theatre and Performance

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Synopsis
In setting foot on stage, every performer risks the possiblity of failure. Indeed, the very performance of any human action is inextricable from its potential not to succeed. This inherent potential has become a key critical trope in contemporary theatre, performance studies, and scholarship around visual cultures. Beyond Failure explores what it means for our understanding not just of theatrical practice but of human social and cultural activity more broadly. The essays in this volume tackle contemporary debates around the theory and poetics of failure, suggesting that in the absence of success can be found a defiance and hopefulness that points to new ways of knowing and being in the world. Beyond Failure offers a unique and engaging approach for students and practitioners interested not only in the impact of failure on the stage, but what it means for wider social and cultural debates.
Copyright:
2019

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
226 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781351247719
Related ISBNs:
9781351247733, 9780815370994
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Tony Fisher and Eve Katsouraki; individual chapters, the contributors
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Drama, Plays and Theater
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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