[ebooks] Playing the Violin by Mark Rush in Arts-Photography

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Is postdramatic theatre political and if so how? How does it relate to Brechts ideas of political theatre; for example? How can we account for the relationship between aesthetics and politics in new forms of theatre; playwriting; and performance?The chapters in this book discuss crucial aspects of the issues raised by the postdramatic turn in theatre in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century: the status of the audience and modes of spectatorship in postdramatic theatre; the political claims of postdramatic theatre; postdramatic theatres ongoing relationship with the dramatic tradition; its dialectical qualities; or its eschewing of the dialectic; questions of representation and the real in theatre; the role of bodies; perception; appearance and theatricality in postdramatic theatre; as well as subjectivity and agency in postdramatic theatre; dance and performance.Offering analyses of a wide range of international performance examples; scholars in this volume engage with Hans-Thies Lehmanns theoretical positions both affirmatively and critically; relating them to other approaches by thinkers ranging from early theorists such as Brecht; Adorno and Benjamin; to contemporary thinkers such as Fischer-Lichte; Ranciegrave;re and others