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With introductory essays by Bonnie Marranca, this reissue of The Theatre of Images brings back to print one of the most influential books on American avant-garde theater in the last two decades.
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In the tradition of the avant-garde, the three plays collected in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of performance. Building on visual arts and dance, as well as on the work of such innovators as Gertrude Stein, Bertolt Brecht and John Cage, playwrights of the American avant-garde - and of the Theater of Images in particular - Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman and Lee Breuer have carried on the tradition of experimental theatre. In "Pandering to the Masses: a Misrepresentation", Richard Foreman, a philosopher as well as a playwright, creates a reality on stage that reflects his own reality - focusing on familiar, everyday events with the addition of recorded voice and projected image. "A Letter for Queen Victoria", by Robert Wilson, is an opera without singers. Verbal declamations take the place of arias, creating a spectacle without narrative structure through tableaux and gesture. Represented in comic-book form, "The Red Horse Animation" demonstrates the play's reliance on cinematic techniques in its composition. It is what author Lee Breuer calls "caption literature", a radical alternative drama documenting the conception of dramatic work.
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Bonnie Marranca is co-editor of "Performing Arts Journal", as well as the author of "Ecologies of Theater" and "Theatrewritings", which received the George Jean Nathan Award; the editor of "American Dreams: The Imagination of Samp Shepard" and "The Theatre of Images".
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- PublisherJohn Hopkins University Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0801852439
- ISBN 13 9780801852435
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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