- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; Expanded edition edition (27 Oct 1988)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 041590093X
- ISBN-13: 978-0415900935
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.3 x 1.9 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 798,023 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Reading Performance Theory by Richard Schechner again, three decades after its first edition, is like meeting an old friend and finding out how much of him/her has been with you all along this way.' – Augusto Boal
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Richard Schechner - one of contemporary theatre's foremeost practitioners- explores in these essays the origins of performance, drama, and theatre and delineates the subtle differences between them. He emphasizes the complex interrelationships that form the basis of ethnological studies of ritual, performance in everyday life, environmental theatre, modern European and American theatre, Eurasian and African theatre, body-oriented dialogue and psychotherapies, play, crisis behaviour, rites of passage and mysticism (especially shamanism).
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10 of 14 people found the following review helpful
A Classic work
20 Jun 2000
Format:Paperback
Schechner's Performance Theory marks a watershed in the study of performance. It should be on the bookshelf of anyone concerned with theater, anthropology, or ritual.
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Peformance Theory - what is great and what is not in the electronic edition
4 Sep 2010
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This is a great book and one that is indispensible for the theatre academic or practitioner. I had it in paper and I decided to buy it kindle format for convenience. There is one problem that I found in some of the kindle books: graphics are not well scanned - small fonts in the graphics are not readable.
Too much is missing
16 Mar 2012
Format:Paperback
There are a few foundational books I want to recommend first regarding the history of performance/literary theater: Not enough about classic work Towards a Poor Theatre (Theatre Arts (Routledge Paperback))primarily Grotowski, linked here, and newer more obscure work also linked in this review. Polish American poet Hedwig Gorski whose book linked here documents Intoxication: Heathcliff on Powell Street how they put Grotowski's Poor Theater into practice in the 1970s in a skewed way, maybe a sloppy American way compared to the long traditions of Polish theatre. The results were fascinating, to say the least. For those less interested in theory, you might be interested in knowing what the actors in the film My Dinner with Andre linked here My Dinner with Andre were discussing: Grotowski theatre exercises, theory, and practice. Years ago, I had the privilege of seeing a Grotowski trained actor from South America do a solo performance, and my life was changed forever. I highly recommend Grotowski essential book as a foundation theory for all the individual theater movements, including slam/hip hop of today, and the Gorski memoir and DVD I linked here as essential for anyone interested in the real history of American poetry in performance, solo theater, and the spoken word movement including slam.
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