After live : possibility, potentiality, and the future of performance / Daniel Sack.

ix, 260 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: One. Introduction: The Futures of Performance -- Two. Dramatic Possibility -- A Future of Meanings and Endings -- Possible Actions -- A Potentiality to "Do and Do and Do" -- Three. Withholding Potentiality -- Bartleby the Scrivener: Linguistic Potentiality -- Bartleby the Dancer: Live Potentiality -- Gagging on Potentiality: Gordon, Gogo, Wilding, and Ivona -- Four. Beholding Potentiality -- Minimalism: A Theater for the Obdurate Masses -- The Melodrama of the Unacknowledged Beholder -- Loving Potentiality -- Five. Actualizing Potentiality -- The Lives and Afterlives of Edward Gordon Craig's Scene -- Societas Raffaello Sanzio and the Apocalyptic Figure -- The Endless Tragedy and Comedy of the Future: Three Performances -- Six. Preferring Not to End -- Curtain Call -- Theater at the Last Frontier -- The Great Medium of Redemption -- Pursuing Potentiality.

Conceives of traditional dramatic theater as a place for taming the future and then conceptualizes how performance beyond this paradigm might stage the unruly nature of futurity. Chapters offer insights into the plays of Beckett, Churchill, Eno, and Gombrowicz, devised theater practices, and include an extended exploration of the Italian director Romeo Castellucci. Through the lens of potentiality, other chapters present novel approaches to minimalist sculpture and dance, then reflect on how the beholder him- or herself is called upon to perform when confronted by such work.

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792.01 S121a 2015