[PDF] The Play Of Death eBook

Author : Mischa Twitchin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137478721

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This book is concerned with such questions as the following: What is the life of the past in the present? How might “the theatre of death” and “the uncanny in mimesis” allow us to conceive of the afterlife of a supposedly ephemeral art practice? How might a theatrical iconology engage with such fundamental social relations as those between the living and the dead? Distinct from the dominant expectation that actors should appear life-like onstage, why is it that some theatre artists – from Craig to Castellucci – have conceived of the actor in the image of the dead? Furthermore, how might an iconology of the actor allow us to imagine the afterlife of an apparently ephemeral art practice? This book explores such questions through the implications of the twofold analogy proposed in its very title: as theatre is to the uncanny, so death is to mimesis; and as theatre is to mimesis, so death is to the uncanny. Walter Benjamin once observed that: “The point at issue in the theatre today can be more accurately defined in relation to the stage than to the play. It concerns the filling-in of the orchestra pit. The abyss which separates the actors from the audience like the dead from the living...” If the relation between the living and the dead can be thought of in terms of an analogy with ancient theatre, how might avant-garde theatre be thought of in terms of this same relation “today”?

Author : Oliver Pötzsch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 054774501X

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Hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is being practiced in the small town of Schongau in 1659 after a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder.

Author : Ariel Dorfman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 17,31 MB
Release : 1994-12-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0140246843

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“Suspenseful, riveting . . . Achieves a universality that is movingly personal.” —The New York Times The explosively provocative, award-winning drama set in a country that has just emerged from a totalitarian dictatorship Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by the humane doctor Roberto Miranda. But in the voice of this good Samaritan, Gerardo's wife, Paulina Salas, thinks she recognizes another man—the one who raped and tortured her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention center years before. Relentlessly paced and filled with lethal surprises, Death and the Maiden is an inquest into the darker side of humanity—one in which everyone is implicated and justice itself comes to seem like a fragile, perhaps ambiguous invention.

Author : Oliver Pötzsch
Publisher : HarperVia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781328662088

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Simon Fronwieser and his hangman father-in-law investigate the murder of the actor due to play Christ in a Passion Play, who was found nailed to the set s cross.

Author : Alberto Cassella
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 25,48 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573607882

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Death suspends activities for three days during which he falls in love with a beautiful girl, and through her realizes why mortals fear him.

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Methuen Drama
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,71 MB
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474260763

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Elesin Oba, the King's Horseman, has a single destiny. When the King dies, he must commit ritual suicide and lead his King's favourite horse and dog through the passage to the world of the ancestors. A British Colonial Officer, Pilkings, intervenes to prevent the death and arrests Elesin. The play is a set text for NEAB GCSE, NEAB A Level and NEAB A/S Level. 'A masterpiece of 20th century drama' - Guardian "A transfixing work of modern world drama" (Independent); "clearly a masterpiece. . . he achieves the full impact of Greek tragedy" (Irving Wardle, Independent on Sunday); "the action of the play is as inevitable and eloquent as in Antigone: a clash of values and cultures so fundamental that tragedy issues: a tragedy for each individual, each tribe" (Michael Schmidt, Daily Telegraph)