Passionate amateurs : theatre, communism, and love /
Ridout, Nicholas Peter,
Passionate amateurs : theatre, communism, and love / Nicholas Ridout. - 1 online resource (206 pages) - Theater: theory/text/performance . - Theater--theory/text/performance. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theatre and communism after Athens -- Of work and time -- All theatre, all the time -- Of work, time, and revolution -- Of work, time, and (telephone) conversation -- Solitude in relation.
Open Access
Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater's potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theater - Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in Moscow - and then crosses the 20th and 21st centuries to look at how its story plays out in Weimar Republic Berlin, in the Paris of the 1960s, and in a spectrum of contemporary performance in Europe and the United States. This is a work of historical materialist theater scholarship, which combines a materialism grounded in a socialist tradition of cultural studies with some of the insights developed in recent years by theorists of affect, and addresses some fundamental questions about the social function and political potential of theater within modern capitalism. Passionate Amateurs argues that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions of work, time, and freedom. Its title concept is a theoretical and historical figure, someone whose work in theater is undertaken within capitalism, but motivated by a love that desires something different. In addition to its theoretical originality, it offers a significant new reading of a major Chekhov play, the most sustained scholarly engagement to date with Benjamin's "Program for a Proletarian Children's Theatre," the first major consideration of Godard's La chinoise as a "theatrical" work, and the first chapter-length discussion of the work of The Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, an American company rapidly gaining a profile in the European theater scene. Passionate Amateurs contributes to the development of theater and performance studies in a way that moves beyond debates over the differences between theater and performance in order to tell a powerful, historically grounded story about what theater and performance are for in the modern world
English.
9780472029594 0472029592 9781306081597 1306081599 9780472900008 0472900005
10.3998/mpub.4537117 doi 469366
539410 MIL 22573/ctt1d619cs JSTOR 22573/ctt1gf73z1 JSTOR 000006 Knowledge Unlatched
2020707076
Theater and society.
Communism and culture.
The arts.
Theatre studies.
PERFORMING ARTS--Theater--General.
PERFORMING ARTS--Theater--History & Criticism.
Communism and culture
Theater and society
literature. theatre studies.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PN2051
792
Passionate amateurs : theatre, communism, and love / Nicholas Ridout. - 1 online resource (206 pages) - Theater: theory/text/performance . - Theater--theory/text/performance. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theatre and communism after Athens -- Of work and time -- All theatre, all the time -- Of work, time, and revolution -- Of work, time, and (telephone) conversation -- Solitude in relation.
Open Access
Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater's potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theater - Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in Moscow - and then crosses the 20th and 21st centuries to look at how its story plays out in Weimar Republic Berlin, in the Paris of the 1960s, and in a spectrum of contemporary performance in Europe and the United States. This is a work of historical materialist theater scholarship, which combines a materialism grounded in a socialist tradition of cultural studies with some of the insights developed in recent years by theorists of affect, and addresses some fundamental questions about the social function and political potential of theater within modern capitalism. Passionate Amateurs argues that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions of work, time, and freedom. Its title concept is a theoretical and historical figure, someone whose work in theater is undertaken within capitalism, but motivated by a love that desires something different. In addition to its theoretical originality, it offers a significant new reading of a major Chekhov play, the most sustained scholarly engagement to date with Benjamin's "Program for a Proletarian Children's Theatre," the first major consideration of Godard's La chinoise as a "theatrical" work, and the first chapter-length discussion of the work of The Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, an American company rapidly gaining a profile in the European theater scene. Passionate Amateurs contributes to the development of theater and performance studies in a way that moves beyond debates over the differences between theater and performance in order to tell a powerful, historically grounded story about what theater and performance are for in the modern world
English.
9780472029594 0472029592 9781306081597 1306081599 9780472900008 0472900005
10.3998/mpub.4537117 doi 469366
539410 MIL 22573/ctt1d619cs JSTOR 22573/ctt1gf73z1 JSTOR 000006 Knowledge Unlatched
2020707076
Theater and society.
Communism and culture.
The arts.
Theatre studies.
PERFORMING ARTS--Theater--General.
PERFORMING ARTS--Theater--History & Criticism.
Communism and culture
Theater and society
literature. theatre studies.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PN2051
792