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Performing Epic or Telling Tales
by Fiona Macintosh 2020-07-11 13:21:02
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Performing Epic or Telling Tales takes the new millennium as a starting point for an exploration of the turn to narrative in twenty-first-century theatre, which is often also a turn to Graeco-Roman epic. However, the dominant focus of the volume is l... Read more
Performing Epic or Telling Tales takes the new millennium as a starting point for an exploration of the turn to narrative in twenty-first-century theatre, which is often also a turn to Graeco-Roman epic. However, the dominant focus of the volume is less on "what" the recent epic turn in thetheatre consists of than "why" it seems to be so prevalent: this turn is explained with reference not only to the translation and scholarly histories of the epics, but also to earlier performance traditions and, notably, to recent theoretical debates relating to text-based "drama" and performancebased "theatre".What is perhaps most remarkable about this epic turn is not simply the sheer number of outstanding performances that it has produced; it is also that recent practice appears to have outstripped much theoretical discussion about theatre. In chapters ranging from spoken word performances to ballet,from the use of machines and technology to performances that make space for voices occluded by the ancient epics, Performing Epic or Telling Tales seeks to contextualize and explain the "narrative"/storytelling (re-)turn in recent live performances - a turn that regularly entails engagement withancient Graeco-Roman epics, which have long provided poets, playwrights, artists, and theatre makers with a storehouse of rich, often perceived as "raw", material. Refigured and refracted for the modern era, the epics of ancient Greece and Rome are found to be particularly revealing, andparticularly "telling" of the contemporary wider cultural sphere. Less
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  • 8.5 X 5.43 X 0.03 in
  • 176
  • Oxford University Press
  • March 21, 2020
  • English
  • 9780192585776
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