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Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure: Forced Entertainment, Goat Island, Elevator Repair Service

SKU: 9780415585651

5,426.82

What if performance “failure” unlocks new realities? Sara Jane Bailes delves into this provocative idea, examining how acclaimed experimental theatre groups like Forced Entertainment, Goat Island, and Elevator Repair Service masterfully stage failure. Uncover how their work challenges perceptions of skill, amateurism, and artistic value in contemporary performance and live art. This critical account, blending rehearsal insights with potent theory, offers essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and students of Theatre Studies and Performance Studies in India, expanding dialogues in dance.

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