Theatre in crisis?

Performance manifestoes for a new century

By: Maria M. Delgado (Editor), Caridad Svich (Editor), Maggie B. Gale (Editor), Peter Lichtenfels (Editor)

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Paperback | 31 October 2002

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A wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theatre practice, economics, and issues related to identity, politics, and technology. Contains a snapshot dissection of where theatre is, where it has been and where it might be going through the voices of established and emerging theatre artists and scholars from the UK, US and elsewhere. Offers an examination of how to make theatre in a time of crisis and why it is a vital form of communication are at the heart of the book's mission. Asks questions such as: where is theatre now taking place?; what is the relationship between play and performance?; how does funding work?; what states does theatre flourish under?; and if there is a current 'crisis of theatre' should it not be seen as a welcome opportunity to develop a vigorous 'theatre of crisis'?.
The international list of contributors includes Jim Carmody, Phyllis Nagy, Michael Billington, Max Stafford-Clark, Peter Sellars, Dragan Klaic, Goat Island, Erik Ehn and many others, making up a vast array of practising artists, thinkers, and scholars.

Industry Reviews

'Delgado and Svich have assembled a collection that will be of great use to and inspiration to academics and practitioners alike'
Sean Carney, Modern Drama, Vol. XLVI No. 4 2003

'This provocative collection of over 30 international contributions draws from an impressive and diverse group of artists, playwrights, and scholars to scrutinize contemporary theatre issues relating to identity, politics, technology, and economics.'
Library Journal, 2003

'An excellent collection'
Plays International, May 2003

'Entertaining and revealing'
European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 7 No. 1

Plays International 'Pick of the Month'.

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