The Piscatorbühne Century: Politics and Aesthetics in the Modern Theater After 1927 (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

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This study of the Piscatorbühne season of 1927–1928 uncovers a vital, previously neglected current of radical experiment in modern theater, a ghost in the machine of contemporary performance practices. A handful of theater seasons changed the course of 20th- and 21st-century theatre. But only the Piscatorbühne of 1927–1928 went bankrupt in less than a year. This exploration tells the story of that collapse, how it predicted the wider collapse of the late Weimar Republic, and how it relates to our own era of political polarization and economic instability. As a wider examination of Piscator’s contributions to dramaturgical and aesthetic form, The Piscatorbühne Century makes a powerful and timely case for the renewed significance of the broader epic theater tradition. Drawing on a rich archive of interwar materials, Drew Lichtenberg reconstructs this germinal nexus of theory and praxis for the modern theatre. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre, performance, art, and literature.
Copyright:
2022

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290 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000479751
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9780367757687, 9780367757663, 9781003163916
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Drew Lichtenberg, The right of Drew Lichtenberg to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections
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Language:
English
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History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts, Philosophy, Politics and Government
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