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Irrational theatre : the challenge posed by the plays of Howard Barker for contemporary performance theory and practice [PDF]
This study arose out of an awareness that contemporary performance theories and production techniques were not appropriate to the plays of Howard Barker. The first section, a comparison of Barker with Edward Bond, attempts to 'situate' the former with
Lamb, Charles
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Phenomena of Recycling in the Context of the Current Independent Scene in Slovakia
Critical Stages, 2021 The present study explores areas of contemporary independent theatre culture in Slovakia. It maps out a range of phenomena which are drawn from current theatre practice and offers several interpretive probes into selected stage and performative works ...
Miroslav Ballay
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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"Antic Dispositions?": The Representation of Madness in Modern British Theatre [PDF]
, 2014 This thesis examines how mental illness has been represented in British theatre from c. 1960 to the present day. It is particularly concerned with the roles played by space and embodiment in these representations, and what emerges as bodies interact in ...
Dingwall-Jones, Christopher
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Creation and Staging of Android Theatre “Sayonara”towards Developing Highly Human-Like Robots
Future Internet, 2017 Even after long-term exposures, androids with a strikingly human-like appearance evoke unnatural feelings. The behavior that would induce human-like feelings after long exposures is difficult to determine, and it often depends on the cultural background ...
Takenobu Chikaraishi +4 more
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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Theatre in Britain during the Second World War [PDF]
, 2010 This article argues for a renewed interest and critical investigation into theatre in Britain during the Second World War – an area which has been neglected by research despite the radical changes in the cultural landscape the war instigated ...
Heinrich, A.
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Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2014 Does a fantastic form in exist in experimental theatre? This essay starts from the Freudian concept of Das Unheimliche to analyze the latest considerations suggested by literary critics. The argument derives from a multidisciplinary perspective including
Monica Cristini
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A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
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Máquinas desumanizadoras, máquinas humanizadoras: sobre o teatro e a tecnologia
Pitágoras 500, 2012 Departing from the analysis of three theatre plays: A voz humana [La Voix Humaine] by Jean Cocteau, The Gigli concert by Thomas Murphy and Krapp’s last tape by Samuel Beckett, it is intended to question how the contemporary relations between man and ...
Eunice Gonçalves Duarte
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