About the Book

The Theatre of Images

The Theatre of Images

Bonnie Marranca (Editor)
April 2005
Trade Paperback · 174 Pages
$20.95 U.S. · $25.50 CAN
ISBN 9781555540739
PAJ Publications
 

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Description

The three plays collected in The Theatre of Images challenge the conventional understanding of performance. In Pandering to the Masses: A Misrepresentation, Richard Foreman creates a reality onstage that reflects his own reality—-focusing on familiar, everyday events with the addition of recorded voice and projected image. A Letter for Queen Victoria, by Robert Wilson, is an opera without singers, with verbal declamations instead of arias. Represented in comic-book form, The Red Horse Animation by Lee Breuer demonstrates the play’s reliance on cinematic techniques in its composition.

About the Author

Bonnie Marranca is co-editor of Performing Arts Journal, as well as the author of Ecologies of Theater and Theatrewritings, which received the George Jean Nathan Award; the editor of American Dreams: The Imagination of Samp Shepard and The Theatre of Images.