UID:
almahu_9949641729002882
Format:
1 online resource (310 pages) :
,
color illustrations.
ISBN:
9781003090298
,
100309029X
,
9781000994636
,
1000994635
,
9781000994698
,
1000994694
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies
Content:
"This book explores the notion that the emergent language of contemporary theatre, and more generally of modern culture, has links to much earlier forms of storytelling and an ancient worldview. This volume looks at our diverse and amalgamative theatrical inheritance and discusses various practitioners and companies whose work reflects and recapitulates ideas, approaches, and structures original to theatre's ritual roots. Drawing together a range of topics and examples from the early Middle Ages to the modern day, Chadwick focuses in on a theatrical language which includes an emphasis on the psychosomatic, the non-linear, the symbolic, the liminal, the collective, and the sacred. This interdisciplinary work draws on approaches from the fields of anthropology, philosophy, historical and cognitive phenomenology, and neuroscience, making the case for the significance of historically responsive modes in theatre practice and more widely in our society and culture"--
Note:
Part one. Looking back : tracing theatre's roots -- Reaching for the unknowable : the human need for ritual -- A flexible superstructure : macrocosm/microcosm and the medieval worldview -- The power of archetype : universal-general and historical-specific -- Time and space : hierophany and imaginative flexibility -- Part two. Moving forward : new historically-responsive methods -- The sacred body-as-text : from medieval to avant-garde -- Seeking immersion, finding connection : the contemporary theatre -- Theatre in times of crisis : the power of ancient forms in collective processing.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Chadwick, Eleanor. Historically responsive storytelling Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9780367547172
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003090298
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003090298
