Railway travel in modern theatre : transforming the space and time of the stage / Kyle Gillette.

By:

Gillette, Kyle, 1979- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781476616063

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PN1861 .R355 2014

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Contents:

Upholstered realism and the great futurist railroad -- The upholstered realism of Henrik Ibsen -- F.T. Marinetti's "Great futurist railroad" -- Loco motion : railway perception, relativity and the stage -- Stanisław Witkiewicz's The crazy locomotive -- Staging relativity : Robert Wilson's Einstein on the beach -- History, the railroad and political theatre -- The locomotive technology of epic theatre : Erwin Piscator's Adventures of the good soldier Schwejk -- Locomotion after Auschwitz : Armand Gatti's Seven possibilities for train 713 departing from Auschwitz -- Locomotive social space on the American stage -- The American train of thought : Thornton Wilder's Pullman car Hiawatha -- In the flying underbelly of the city : Amiri Baraka's Dutchman.

Subject: "Early in the 20th century, breakthroughs explored the mechanical rhythms and perceptual effects of railway travel to investigate history, technology, and motion. By analyzing theatrical representations of railway travel, this book argues that modern theatre's perceptual, historical and social productions of space and time were stretched by theatre's attempts to stage the locomotive"--

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Theatre and locomotion -- Upholstered realism and the great futurist railroad -- The upholstered realism of Henrik Ibsen -- F.T. Marinetti's "Great futurist railroad" -- Loco motion : railway perception, relativity and the stage -- Stanisław Witkiewicz's The crazy locomotive -- Staging relativity : Robert Wilson's Einstein on the beach -- History, the railroad and political theatre -- The locomotive technology of epic theatre : Erwin Piscator's Adventures of the good soldier Schwejk -- Locomotion after Auschwitz : Armand Gatti's Seven possibilities for train 713 departing from Auschwitz -- Locomotive social space on the American stage -- The American train of thought : Thornton Wilder's Pullman car Hiawatha -- In the flying underbelly of the city : Amiri Baraka's Dutchman.

"Early in the 20th century, breakthroughs explored the mechanical rhythms and perceptual effects of railway travel to investigate history, technology, and motion. By analyzing theatrical representations of railway travel, this book argues that modern theatre's perceptual, historical and social productions of space and time were stretched by theatre's attempts to stage the locomotive"--

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