A formalist theatre /
Michael Kirby was the most outspoken exponent of formalist theater and founded the Structuralist Workshop in the 1960s to explore this style of performance. He called it "Structuralist" (capitalizing the term popularized by Levi-Strauss) to make a distinction between his emphasis on spatia...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
©1987.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhg68 |
Table of Contents:
- Part one: Formalist analysis
- Acting and not-acting
- The structure of performance
- Referential and non-referential theatre
- Style as perceptual state
- Part two: The social context
- The critical screen
- The question of efficacy
- Avant-garde theatre
- Part three: Structuralist theatre
- The structuralist workshop
- Three structuralist performances
- Structuralist film.