Art Into Theatre investigates the processes of hybrid forms of performance developed between 1952 and 1994 through a series of interviews with key practitioners and over 80 pieces of documentation, many previously unpublished, of the works under discussion.
Ranging from the austerity of Cage's 4'33" through the inter-species communication of Schneeman's Cat Scanand the experimental theatre work of Schechner, Foreman, and Kirby, to the recent performances of Abramovic, Forced Entertainment and the Wooster Group, Art Into Theatre offers a fascinating collection of perspectives on the destabilizing of conventional ideas of the art "object" and the theatrical "text".
Nick Kaye's introductory essay to the volume offers a useful context for the reader and each interview is preceded by an informative biographical sketch.
- ISBN10 3718657880
- ISBN13 9783718657889
- Publish Date 15 May 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 August 2012
- Publish Country NL
- Publisher Gordon and Breach
- Imprint Harwood Academic (Performing Arts)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 281
- Language English