Studies in International Performance

The Last Human Venue

By: Alan Read

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Paperback | 1 July 2009 | Edition Number 1

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This book, now available in paperback, unravels politics from theatre in order to propose a new means to politicize performance. Performance analyses ranging from child actors, animals and objects to reflections on the theatre work of Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Forced Entertainment and Goat Island combine to offer a critique of performance studies.

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'This is a rich and rewarding book, written with feeling and a deep commitment to its many, various and often unpredictable subjects. Readers who accept its generous invitation will be seduced, provoked and encouraged to think afresh about how they understand their theatre, their politics and their intellectual engagement.' - Nicholas Ridout, School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

'Read's polemic poses a vehement and noteworthy challenge, not least for the urgency with which he calls for an ethics of practice and scholarship.' - Dominic Johnson, Contemporary Theatre Review

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Author's Preface	p. xi
Series Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Self-evident: intimacy and engagement	p. 1
The human laboratory: parable of a recent past	p. 2
Nature, theatre & politics: the present project	p. 5
A Second naïveté: the future constitution	p. 14
On The Social Life of Theatre: Towards a Science of Appearance
Introduction	p. 15
The Ends Of Politics	p. 25
A Singular Art	p. 30
The Social Conditional	p. 40
Begin Again	p. 44
Sufficient Goods	p. 46
The Present Imperfect	p. 53
Discipline in Distress	p. 58
A Life in Theatre	p. 68
Theatre Returns	p. 70
On Performance as Such & On Human Performance in Particular
The Anthropological Machine	p. 81
Nature Table	p. 102
Play ground	p. 105
Swimming pool	p. 111
Class room	p. 113
Stage Play	p. 120
Acknowledging	p. 123
The imperative of performance	p. 124
In the infancy of theatre	p. 126
Ring-Side	p. 132
Redeemed Night	p. 145
Fear	p. 146
Fauna	p. 149
Fur	p. 152
Infant Enthusiasm	p. 157
Infant	p. 158
Infant animal	p. 161
Interval	p. 164
Infant, animal, automata	p. 165
Infant 'inhuman' Auschwitz	p. 171
On the Part of Those Who Have No Part
The Distribution of the Sensible	p. 175
Recalling the Collective	p. 187
Forensic Display	p. 207
Arrested Life	p. 218
The Democracy Machine	p. 229
Memoir: Civil Service	p. 231
Memorial: Military Service	p. 238
Memory: Secret Service	p. 244
In the Event of Extinction: Natural History & Its Ends
Introduction	p. 249
Destination Nature	p. 252
Natural History	p. 263
In the Event of Extinction	p. 268
The Last Human Venue	p. 271
The Franciscan Model	p. 274
Postscript	p. 277
The paradox of the actor	p. 277
The parallax of the performer	p. 278
The Lazarus affect	p. 279
Notes	p. 280
Select Bibliography	p. 299
Index	p. 308
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