The Rise of Performance Studies: Rethinking Richard Schechner’s Broad Spectrum

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: The Rise of Performance Studies....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Performance Studies and the Enhancement of Theatre Studies....Pages 13-22
In Defense of the String Quartet: An Open Letter to Richard Schechner....Pages 23-38
Experimenting with an Unfinished Discipline: Richard Schechner, the Avant-Garde and Performance Studies....Pages 39-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Wayang Studies?....Pages 67-84
Today I Am a Field: Performance Studies Comes of Age....Pages 85-97
Richard Schechner and Performance Studies in China....Pages 98-117
Australian Performance Studies Marginally Off Centre....Pages 118-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Reactuals: From Personal to Critical and Back....Pages 135-151
Fanning the Flames: Richard Schechner’s TDR....Pages 152-161
Liminal Richard: Approaches to Performance Studies....Pages 162-176
The Broadest Spectrum of Pluralities: Performance Studies, Theatre Practices, Theatre Histories, and Beyond....Pages 177-190
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Richard Schechner....Pages 193-195
Joan MacIntosh: Interview, July 2008....Pages 196-212
Elizabeth LeCompte: Interview, June 2008....Pages 213-219
For Richard....Pages 220-226
Performing Against the Backdrop of the War on Terror....Pages 227-233
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Trauma as Durational Performance....Pages 237-247
Medical Clowning and Performance Theory....Pages 248-263
Restored Restored Behavior or the Emperor of California Roll: 1989–90 Japanese Imperial Rites of Funeral and Enthronement....Pages 264-274
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
“Deep Play, Dark Play”: Framing the Limit(less)....Pages 275-283
Back Matter....Pages 284-295