The Very Thought of Herbert Blau

The Very Thought of Herbert Blau

The Very Thought of Herbert Blau

The Very Thought of Herbert Blau

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Overview

Herbert Blau (1926–2013) was the most influential theater theorist, practitioner, and educator of his generation. He was the leading American interpreter of the works of Samuel Beckett and as a director was instrumental in introducing works of the European avant-garde to American audiences. He was also one of the most far-reaching and thoughtful American theorists of theater and performance, and author of influential books such as The Dubious SpectacleThe Audience, and Take Up the Bodies: Theater at the Vanishing Point.

In The Very Thought of Herbert Blau, distinguished artists and scholars offer reflections on what made Blau's contributions so visionary, transformative, and unforgettable, and why his ideas endure in both seminar rooms and studios. The contributors, including Lee Breuer, Sue-Ellen Case, Gautam Dasgupta, Elin Diamond, S. E. Gontarski, Linda Gregerson, Martin Harries, Bill Irwin, Julia Jarcho, Anthony Kubiak, Daniel Listoe, Clark Lunberry, Bonnie Marranca, Peggy Phelan, Joseph Roach, Richard Schechner, Morton Subotnick, Julie Taymor, and Gregory Whitehead, respond to Blau's fierce and polymorphous intellect, his relentless drive and determination, and his audacity, his authority, to think, as he frequently insisted, "at the very nerve ends of thought."
 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780472124084
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 10/22/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 244
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Clark Lunberry is Professor of English, University of North Florida. Joseph Roach is Sterling Professor of Theater at Yale University.

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Books by Herbert Blau Introduction: The Very Life, The Very Thought (Clark Lunberry) HERB (Lee Breuer) Carrying On: The Procession of Blau’s Thought (Sue-Ellen Case) Re: Blau: Theorizing, Resignifying, Mirroring (Elin Diamond) "Who the Hell Is Herbert Blau?": The "Dark Energy" of an American Cruel Theater (S. E. Gontarski) Learning to Think (Linda Gregerson) Dividing the Audience (Julia Jarcho and Martin Harries) "One Man Dancing": Remembering Herbert Blau (Bill Irwin) You are Living in Your Breathing. You are Dying in Your Breathing: Bardo, Dream-Yoga, and Theater in the Work of Herbert Blau (Anthony Kubiak) Rehearsing the Promised End (Daniel Listoe) The Play of Thought: An Interview with Herbert Blau (Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta) The Essential Herbert Blau (Rereading his play of thought) (Bonnie Marranca) Renewing the Ado: An Adieu to Blau (Peggy Phelan) Blau’s Shakespeare: The Makeup of Memory (Joseph Roach) Herbert Blau Professor Artist Wordist (Richard Schechner) Re: Herb Blau (Morton Subotnick) "Living in Front of Your Eyes . . . Living and Creating" (Julie Taymor) What Thy Memory Cannot Contain (Gregory Whitehead) Contributors Index
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