Author's Note; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The fan and the web; 1. Approaches; 2. Actuals; 3. Drama, script, theater, and performance; 4. From ritual to theater and back: the efficacy-entertainment braid; 5. Towards a poetics of performance; 6.Selective inattention; 7. Ethology and theater; 8. Magnitudes of performance; References; Index
One of contemporary theatre's most celebrated directors, he is also a world-renowned artist and scholar.
'Reading Performance Theory by Richard Schechner again, three
decades after its first edition, is like meeting an old friend and
finding out how much of him/her has been with you all along this
way.' – Augusto Boal
'Richard Schechner has defined the parameters of contemporary
performance with an originality and insight that make him
indispensable to contemporary theatrical thought. For many years,
both scholars and artists have been inspired by his unique and
powerful perspective.' - Richard Foreman
'Schechner's views are usually provocative, his incidental comments
are often acute, and he has a commendable gift for making
unexpected connections.' - British Journal of Aesthetics
'Reading Performance Theory by Richard Schechner again, three
decades after its first edition, is like meeting an old friend and
finding out how much of him/her has been with you all along this
way.' - Augusto Boal
'It is an indispensable text in all aspects of the new discipline
of Performance Studies. It is in many ways an eye-opener
particularly in its linkage of theater to other performance
genres.' - Ngugi wa Thiong'o, University of California
'Performance Theory is Richard Schechner's classic contribution to
the performing arts and critical theory. This is a work of erudite
elegance which blazes across disciplines, cultures, and histories,
illuminating some of the most fundamental symbols and rituals
through which we make sense of the world in which we live.' - Homi
K. Bhabha, Harvard University
"Richard Schechner is the master teacher and the master conversant
on the transformative power of performance to both performer and
spectator, at its deepest level. Performance Theory is the
essential book which brilliantly illuminates the world as a
performance space on stage and off." - Anna Deavere Smith
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