- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Methuen Drama (11 May 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0413738205
- ISBN-13: 978-0413738202
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.8 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 845,983 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A vivid polemic about the dangers theatre faces in the digital age In a personal journey that takes different narrative guises - reportage, memoir, conversations and critical analysis - Michael Kustow teases out answers to a fundamental question: Why is theatre such an enduring part of our being no matter how hard it is pressed? Starting from his own personal perspective and with war in Kosovo as a backdrop, Kustow begins with a sobering and often funny account of his Sisyphean efforts to produce Tantalus, a fifteen-hour theatre epic about the Trojan War by John Barton. Then turning his gaze to crucial theatre events of the past fifty years, Kustow explores many different paths: the rise of the Royal Shakespeare Company and its renewal of classical language; the creation of the National Theatre; the vanguard work of such pioneers as Jerzy Grotowski, Pina Bausch and Pip Simmons; television's on-off relationship with theatre; and the cutting-edge work of dramatists like Mark Ravenhill and companies like Theatre de Complicite.Kustow's quest to uncover the roots of theatre leads him into encounters with important post-war and contemporary theatre makers such as Peter Brook, John Barton, Peter Hall, Tony Harrison, Ariane Mnouchkine, Peter Sellars, Robert Lepage, Pieter-Dirk Uys and Simon McBurney.In a new Millennium, theatre@risk uncovers the qualities and values that make theatre needed, more than ever, in a world tidied by information technology and cultural globalization.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
For anyone interested in theatre and frustrated by the lack of attention it receives from serious thinkers, then this is the book to read. Kustow is a risky fellow and takes you on a journey into the world of a producer and into the mind of a man who is so passionate about and hooked by an art form. Wonderfully written. Great quotes and interviews. Cerebral and popular. The book I have been waiting for someone to write. Sadly, this is very hard to find in bookshops. Shame on the publishers.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Michael Kustow's career in the theatre and as a producer create an unusual sort of autobiography. His premise about theatre in the digital age goes by the way in favour of a fascinating, personal exploration of why theatre matters. Very good on the avant-garde and on producing an epic show which reads like fiction. Why are there not more 'think' books like this one?
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