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|aTheatre, intimacy & engagement|h[electronic resource] :|bthe last human venue /|cAlan Read.
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|aTheatre, intimacy and engagement
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|aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ;|aNew York :|bPalgraveMacmillan,|c2008.
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|axvi, 323 p., [24] p. of plates :|bill. (some col.) ;|c23 cm.
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|aStudies in international performance
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 299-307) and index.
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|aSelf-Evident: Intimacy and Engagement -- The Human Laboratory: Parable of a Recent Past -- Nature, Theatre&|160;& Politics: The Present Project -- A Second Naivete: The Future Constitution -- PART I: ON THE SOCIAL LIFE OF THEATRE: TOWARDS A SCIENCE OF APPEARANCE -- The Ends of Politics, A Singular Art, The Social Conditional, Begin Again, Sufficient Goods, The Present Imperfect, Discipline in Distress, A Life in the Theatre, Theatre Returns -- PART II: ON PERFORMANCE AS SUCH AND ON HUMAN PERFORMANCE IN PARTICULAR -- The Anthropological Machine -- Nature Table-- Stage Play -- Ring Side -- Redeemed Night -- Infant Enthusiasm -- PART III: ON THE PART OF THOSE WHO HAVE NO PART -- The Distribution of the Sensible -- Recalling the Collective -- Forensic Display -- ArrestedLife -- The Democracy Machine -- PART IV: IN THE EVENT OF EXTINCTION: NATURAL HISTORY AND ITS ENDS -- Destination Nature, Natural History, The Extinction of Performance, The Last Human Venue, The Franciscan Model-- POSTSCRIPT -- The Paradox of The Actor -- The Parallax of The Performer -- The Lazarus Affect.
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|aThe last human venue marks the location and moment of human beings' awareness of their own eventual extinction. Taking this sober end as anaffirmative starting point Theatre, Intimacy & Engagement explores ways in which performance operates as an exciter of sentience, kick-starting our sense of being alive, acting as a pleasurable lengthening deviceto extend our inevitable fate. Humans in this venue distinguish themselves from other animals through their experiencing of an extended childhood, in their ability to sustain a controlled, unbroken outward breathand by their unique capacity to aesthetically disappoint. Theatre companies in this venue, Forced Entertainment, Societas Raffaello Sanzio and Goat Island generate images of epochal endings, profane resistance tosacred separation and the ecological potential of repair. Those who are stage-struck in this venue think through theatre ideas about matters of human animal concern: the politics of nature, the anthropological machine,the distribution of the sensible and the inoperative community.
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|aElectronic reproduction.|bBasingstoke, England :|cPalgrave Macmillan,|d2010.|nMode of access:World Wide Web.|nSystem requirements: Web browser.|nTitle from title screen (viewed on Apr. 12, 2010).|nAccess may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
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