Eleanor Chadwick

Historically Responsive Storytelling

How Contemporary Western Theatre is Rediscovering its Roots

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the notion that the emergent language of contemporary theatre, and more generally of modern culture, has links to much earlier forms of storytelling and an ancient worldview.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 1260g
• ISBN-13: 9780367547172
• ISBN-10: 0367547171
• Artikelnr.: 68472589

Autorenporträt

Eleanor Chadwick is a researcher and theatre maker currently working with Watershed Pervasive Media Studio and University of Bristol on a MyWorld Fellowship. She is also Artistic Director of Sleight of Hand theatre company, and a postdoctoral associate in Theatre and Performance Studies at University of Warwick, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART ONE: Looking Back: Tracing Theatre's Roots
Chapter 1. Reaching for the Unknowable: the Human need for Ritual
Chapter 2. A Flexible Superstructure: Macrocosm/Microcosm and the Medieval
Worldview
Chapter 3. The Power of Archetype: Universal-General and
Historical-Specific
Chapter 4. Time and Space: Hierophany and Imaginative Flexibility
PART TWO: Moving Forward: New Historically-Responsive Methods
Chapter 5. The Sacred Body-as-Text: from Medieval to Avant-Garde
Chapter 6. Seeking Immersion, Finding Connection: the Contemporary Theatre
Chapter 7. Theatre in Times of Crisis: the Power of Ancient Forms in
Collective Processing
Bibliography
Index