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"Fail again, fail better": Contemporary performance theatre and the poetics of failure.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Fail again, fail better": Contemporary performance theatre and the poetics of failure./
Author:	Bailes, Sara Jane.
Description:	398 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 3867.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-11A.
Subject:	Theater. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3195423
ISBN:	9780542402678

"Fail again, fail better": Contemporary performance theatre and the poetics of failure.
Bailes, Sara Jane.

"Fail again, fail better": Contemporary performance theatre and the poetics of failure. - 398 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 3867.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2005.

This dissertation investigates failure in contemporary performance theatre. It considers a "poetics of failure" as offering an alternative economy of representation critical to a discourse of theatre specifically and performance studies more generally. Focusing primarily on the collaborative experimental theatre of Forced Entertainment (England), Elevator Repair Service (U.S.) and Goat Island (U.S.) during the last two and a half decades (1980-present day) it tracks the transition of failure from a literary to a theatrical trope, that is, from a paradigm of thought to a mode of practice. I locate the beginnings of this extended shift with specific reference to the work of playwright Samuel Beckett, and other relevant performance art/theatre histories of the twentieth century, in order to interrogate the implications of these new modes of practice as they intersect with key theoretical trajectories relevant to performance, such as Marxism, post-structuralism, and theories of representation. In particular, I argue that a poetics of failure, anti-hierarchical in its structure and in its ability to generate resistant techniques and modalities in performance, indexes a radical and exciting potentiality for theatre praxis. I track the specific development of a taxonomy of failure in performance as a methodology---a set of tactics deployed and worked out through theatre-making---and as an ethics of practice, that is, a poetics of failure conceived of as an ideology which informs the production of work. As well as focusing on the rehearsals and productions of the three above-named companies as case studies, my reading pays close attention to the social, political, and cultural contexts in which the work arises, and to the specific aesthetic and conceptual characteristics that index failure in the work of each group.

ISBN: 9780542402678Subjects--Topical Terms:

522973
Theater.

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