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Signs of Performance by Colin Counsell, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
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Signs of Performance by Colin Counsell, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
From Colin Counsell
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Signs of Performance by Colin Counsell, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
From Colin Counsell
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Signs of Performanceprovides the beginning student with working examples of theatrical analysis. Its range covers the whole of twentieth century theatre, from Stanislavski to Brecht and Samuel Beckett to Robert Wilson. Colin Counsell takes an historical look at theatre as a cultural practice, clearly tracing connections between:* Key practitioners' ideas about performance* The theatrical practices prompted by those ideas* The resulting signs which emerge in performance* The meanings and political consequences of those signsIt provides an understandable theoretical framework for the study of theatre as a an signifying practice, and offers vivid explanations in clear, direct language. It opens up this fascinating field to a broad audience. | Signs of Performance by Colin Counsell, Paperback | Indigo Chapters