Theatre, time and temporality : melting clocks and snapped elastics

Theatre, time and temporality : melting clocks and snapped elastics / David Ian Rabey.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rabey, David Ian, 1958- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK : Intellect, 2016.
Series:Theatre and consciousness.
Subjects:
Drama > History and criticism.
Time in literature.
Theater > History.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
DRAMA / General
Drama
Theater
Time in literature
Aufführung
Zeit > Motiv
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Theatre in Time; Chapter 1: Whose Time Is It?; What Fundamental Things Apply?; Time Is Ticking (Clock of The Heart); Temporality: What Is 'The Time'?; Intensifying Combinations: Theatrical Time; Melting Clocks and Snapped Elastics; Wild Mercury; Points of Departure; Creative Tension; Stretch and Flow; Cause and Effect; Slaves To The Rhythm; Morality and Money; (Un)Doing The Maths; Beating The Bounds; Chapter 2: Theatre in Time; Starting The Day; Interlude: Ways of Speed; Starting The Night.
  • Chronos and KairosBachelard and The Dialectic of Duration; Prigogine and Theatre As Dissipative Structure; Theatre As Diffusive Resonance: Green's Random; Theatre As Dissipative Structure: Wesker's The Kitchen; Theatre As Chaotic Map: Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape; Barbara Adam and Quantum Theatrics; Chronos V. Kairos: Thomas's Flowers of The Dead Red Sea:'The Whole Fucking Shit Palace Falls on Our Heads'; Theatrical Timescapes; Interval: A Hole in The Night; Part Ii: Time in Theatre; Chapter 3: Shapes of Time; Everything Must Change; Distinctions in Time; Models of Theatrical Time: A Survey.
  • Temporal 'Thickness' in Morality PlaysDr Faustus: 'The Double Motion of The Planets'; Shakespeare: Too Long for A Play; Dislocations in Dreamtime; Wilder: Stygian Perspectives on The Passing World; Priestley: Hinges in Time; Wesker: Disillusion and Dynamism; Comical-Historical-Tragical; Interlude 1: 'Why Don't You All Just F-F-Fade Away'?: Further Thoughts on Staging Ageing; Chapter 4: Principles of Uncertainty; Beckett: Marking Time/Shoring Up The Debris; Pinter: in Search of Lost Time; Barker: 'The Sheer Suspension of Not Knowing'; Complicating Shadows.
  • Ed Thomas: Memory, Desire and The Parts You Throw AwayButterworth: Time Past and Time Present; Breaking The Loop: Mcdowall's Radical Uncertainty; Interlude 2: The Clock in The Forest: Jerusalem Unenclosed: A Case History; Chapter 5: Time Out of Joint; Timebends and Countermyths; Bond: Time as Blood Money; Neilson's The Wonderful World of Dissocia: 'Inside-Between The Carvings of The Clock'; Once Upon A Time: Churchill's Traumatic Dystopias; The Time that Does Not Heal; Rudkin: The Once and Future; Rifkin: Searching for the New 'Time Rebels'
  • Reverse Engineering: The Radicalization of Bradley ManningInconclusion: Repent, Harlequin & Stolen Moments; Envoi: Give Me Just a Little More Time; References; Index.

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