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Theatre in Crisis? Performance Manifestos for a New Century is a wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theater practice, economics, and issues related to identity, politics, and technology. The volume offers a snapshot dissection of where theater is, where it has been and where it might be going through the voices of established and emerging theater artists and scholars from the UK, US, and elsewhere.

Contributors: Maria M. Delgado & Caridad Svich • Oliver Mayer, Jorge Cortiñas, Neena Beber, & Craig Lucas • Jim Carmody • Roberta Levitow • Peter Lichtenfels & Lynette Hunter • Michael Billington • Claire H. Macdonald • Anna Furse • ...

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Overview

Theatre in Crisis? Performance Manifestos for a New Century is a wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theater practice, economics, and issues related to identity, politics, and technology. The volume offers a snapshot dissection of where theater is, where it has been and where it might be going through the voices of established and emerging theater artists and scholars from the UK, US, and elsewhere.

Contributors: Maria M. Delgado & Caridad Svich • Oliver Mayer, Jorge Cortiñas, Neena Beber, & Craig Lucas • Jim Carmody • Roberta Levitow • Peter Lichtenfels & Lynette Hunter • Michael Billington • Claire H. Macdonald • Anna Furse • Phyllis Nagy • Max Stafford-Clark • Len Berkman • DD Kugler • Tori Haring-Smith • John London • Kia Corthron • Alice Tuan • Ricardo Szwarcer • Peter Sellars • Dragan Klaic • Lisa D’Amour • Paul Heritage • Matthew Causey • Andy Lavender • Jon Fosse • Erik Ehn • Matthew Maguire • Shelley Berc • Ruth Margraff • Martin Epstein • Mac Wellman • Goat Island

Editorial Reviews

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This is a collection of 33 short essays and "thoughts" by theater scholars and practitioners. The stated purpose is to offer various views of contemporary theater economics, issues, and practice as related to politics, identity, and technology-a snapshot, as it were, of where theater is now and where it is going. Since the question "Is the theater dead?" seems to be raised every decade or so, it's not surprising that the editors have seized the opportunity offered by a new century to ask the question yet again. The word crisis is used unrelentingly; director Robert Levitow, for instance, enumerates six major crises facing the theater and ends with sad regret that his spirit has been broken. Clearly, he is not alone. On the other hand, playwright/director Matthew Maguire argues that the theater has always been dying and is always in crisis and offers several strategies to continue the struggle. British theater professionals Paul Lichtenfels and Lynette Hunter round out the text by offering an interesting look at British theater today. Recommended only for academic libraries with a very strong theater interest.-Susan L. Peters, Univ. of Texas, Galveston Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780719062919
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publication date: 5/16/2003
  • Pages: 256
  • Series: Theatre: Theory-Practice-Performance
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.64 (d)

Meet the Author

Maria M. Delgado is Reader in Drama and Theatre Arts at Queen Mary, University of London.

Caridad Svich is a member playwright of New Dramatists in New York.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Theatre in crisis? Performance manifestos for a new century: snapshots of a time 1
Theatre in crisis? Living memory in an unstable time 15
Some quick thoughts on theatre and its future 20
I Crisis as practice: strategies, concepts and working decisions
The comforts of crisis 22
Some words about the theatre today 25
Seeing through the national and global stereotypes: British theatre in crisis 31
The state of reviewing today 54
Critical path 57
Those who can do teach 64
Hold your nerve: notes for a young playwright 74
Against pessimism 82
II Theatre and identity: negotiating doubt and passion
More enterprise in walking naked 89
Educating the audience: sharing the process 94
On the death of theatre: a call to action 97
Dancing with the dead man: notes on a theatre for the future of Europe 103
Black theatre at the turn of the millennium 107
The crisis of label 112
Notes on opera at the end of the century 121
III What's to be done? Theatre off the map
The question of culture 127
The crisis of theatre? The theatre of crisis! 144
Scavenging for home (or, how I learned to take refuge in live theatre while worrying about the bomb) 160
Stealing kisses 166
A theatre of monsters: live performance in the age of digital media 179
The moment of realized actuality 183
IV Looking forward, looking back: theatre and the spiritual, messages to a new world
When an angel goes through the stage 191
Bad glamour 193
Heat bath 196
Theatre of the mind: a fugue in two parts 206
An evangelical capitalist message in a bottle to the next millennium of Robinson Crusoes in proscenium 215
Poor Tom's a-cold: reflections on the modern theatre in crisis 222
The theatre of good intentions 229
Letter to a young practitioner 240
V Afterword
Theatre in crisis? 250
Select bibliography 257
Index 261

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