Books: Staging the Screen – The Use of Film and Video in Theatre
The use of film and video is commonplace in contemporary theatre, viewed by some as contaminating theatre’s ‘liveness’, by others as inevitable and desirable. After tracing the history of current approaches back to…
In Performance: Forced Entertainment – The Coming Storm (Vienna, Austria)
The Coming Storm Forced Entertainment Tanzquartier Wien 5.10.-6.10.2012 Vienna, Austria In this new work Forced Entertainment – international innovators of contemporary theatre – tangle and cross-cut multiple stories to make a…
Books: Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure
[amazonify]0415585651[/amazonify]What does it mean to “fail” in performance? How might staging failure reveal theatre’s potential to expand our understanding of social, political and everyday reality? What can we learn from performances that expose…
Highlights: Prospettiva 09 – Un festival d’autunno (Torino, Italy)
Prospettiva 09 – An Autumn Festival (Torino, Italy) Contemporary culture knows no boundaries, it affirms its identity in the interaction between genres and languages, and constantly redefines its own form, ignoring barriers and…
