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26 Nov Featured: The Institute of Failure

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About the Institute Situated on the ungraspable border between deadpan irony and high seriousness, The Institute of Failure dedicates itself to the documentation, study, and theorisation of failure as it occurs in all aspects of human endeavour. Existing as a website and through occasional live presentations, the...

05 Nov Books: Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure

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[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 and then celebrate their ability to fail? In Performance Theatre and the Poetics...

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26 Nov Featured: The Institute of Failure

05 Nov Books: Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure