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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Muse, John H.
Titre(s) : Microdramas [Texte imprimé] : crucibles for theater and time / John H. Muse
Publication : Ann Arbor : University of Michigan press, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : xiii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : Theater : theory, text, performance
Lien à la collection : Theater (Ann Arbor)
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-221) and index
"In Microdramas, John H. Muse argues that plays shorter than twenty minutes deserve
sustained attention, and that brevity should be considered a distinct mode of theatrical
practice. Focusing on artists for whom brevity became both a structural principle
and a tool to investigate theater itself (August Strindberg, Maurice Maeterlinck,
F.T. Marinetti, Samuel Beckett, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Caryl Churchill), the book explores
four episodes in the history of very short theater, all characterized by the self-conscious
embrace of brevity. The story moves from the birth of the modernist microdrama in
French little theaters in the 1880s, to the explicit worship of speed in Italian Futurist
synthetic theater, to Samuel Beckett's often-misunderstood short plays, and finally
to a range of contemporary playwrights whose long compilations of shorts offer a new
take on momentary theater. Subjecting short plays to extended scrutiny upends assumptions
about brief or minimal art, and about theatrical experience. The book shows that short
performances often demand greater attention from audiences than plays that unfold
more predictably. Microdramas put pressure on preconceptions about which aspects of
theater might be fundamentaland about what might qualify as an event. In the process,
they suggest answers to crucial questions about time, spectatorship, and significance"
Sujet(s) : Pièces en un acte
Pièces en un acte -- Technique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780472073634. - ISBN 047207363X. - ISBN 9780472053636. - ISBN 0472053639. -
ISBN 9780472123148 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb455690907
Notice n° :
FRBNF45569090
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: Time pieces ; The dimensions of the moment: Short spaces and the birth
of the modernist microdrama ; The future in the instant: Futurist synthesis in theory
and practice ; The shape of time in Beckett's late theater ; Long shorts: Contemporary
micro-marathons.