Teatro experimental

 

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A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

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by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Experimental drama

 

 

Abel, Lionel. Metatheatre: A New View of Dramatic Form. New York: Hill and Wang, 1963.

Alber, Jan. Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2016.

Ansorge, Peter. Disrupting the Spectacle: Five Years of Experimental and Fringe Theatre. Pitman, 1975.

Artaud, Antonin. Le théatre et son double.  Paris: Gallimard, 1938.

_____. The Theatre and Its Double. Trans. Mary Caroline Richards. New York: Grove, 1958.

_____. The Theatre and Its Double. London: Calder and Boyars, 1970.

_____. Artaud on Theatre. Ed. Claude Schumacher. London: Methuen, 1989.

Auslander, Philip. "Toward a Concept of the Political in Postmodern Theatre." Theatre Journal 39.1 (March 1987).

Aznar Soler, Manuel. Max Aub y la vanguardia teatral (escritos sobre teatro, 1928-1938). Valencia, 1993.

Benjamin, Walter. (What Is Epic Theater?) Mass und Wert (1939).

_____. "What is Epic Theater?" In Benjamin, Illuminations New York: Schocken, 1969. 147-54.*

Biçer, Ahmet G. "Sarah Kane's postdramatic strategies in Blasted, Cleansed and Crave." Uluslararası Sosyal Ara Tırmalar Dergisi. The Journal of International Social Research (2011): 75-80.

http://www.sosyalarastirmalar.com/cilt4/sayi17pdf/1diledebiyat/bicer_gokhan.pdf

2016

Birringer, Johannes. Theatre, Theory, Postmodernism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991.

Blau, Herbert. "The Oversight of Ceaseless Eyes." In Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama. Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 279-92.* (Spectacles, avant-garde).

Borràs Castanyer, Laura, ed. Reescribir la escena. Madrid: Fundación Autor, 1998.

Brater, Enoch, and Ruby Cohn, eds. Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990.*

Brecht, Bertold. "On the Experimental Theatre." In Perspectives on Drama. Ed. J. L. Calderwood and H. E. Toliver. New York: Oxford UP, 1968. 270-78.*

Cameron, Alasdair. "Experimental Theatre in Scotland?" In Contemporary British Theatre. Ed. Theodore Shank. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994. 123-38.

Castells i Altirriba, Joan, et al., eds. "La experimentación: Els Comediants, La Fura dels Baus, Els Joglars y La Cuadra." In Los nuevos nombres: 1975-1990. Ed. Darío Villanueva et al. Vol. 9 of Historia y crítica de la literatura española. Gen. ed. Francisco Rico. Barcelona: Crítica, 1992. 490-507.*

Causey, Matthew. "The Aesthetics of Disappearance and the Politics of Visibility in the Performance of Technology." Gramma/Gramma 10 (2002): 59-72.*

_____. "Postorganic Performance: The Appearance of Theater in Virtual Spaces." In Cyberspace Textuality: Computer Technology and Literary Theory. Ed. Marie-Laure Ryan. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1999. 182-201.

_____. "La performance post-orgánica: la apariencia del teatro en los espacios virtuales." Trans. Óscar Jiménez. In Literatura y cibercultura. Ed. Domingo Sánchez-Mesa. Madrid: Arco/Libros, 2004. 297-325.*

Copeau, Jacques. Le Théâtre Populaire. 1941. (Pro experimental drama).

Cornago, Oscar. "Teatro postdramático: Las resistencias de la representación." In Artes de la escena y de la acción en España 1978-2002. Cuenca: Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha, 2006.

http://artesescenicas.uclm.es/archivos_subidos/textos/290/teatropostdramatico_ocornago.pdf

2016

Diamond, Elin. "Brechtian Theory/Feminist Theory." Drama Review 32 (1988): 82-94.

Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd. 1961. Rev. ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.*

_____. "The Theatre of the Absurd." In Perspectives on Drama. Ed. J. L. Calderwood and H. E. Toliver. New York: Oxford UP, 1968. 18-25.*

_____. The Peopled Wound: The Plays of Harold Pinter. London: Methuen, 1970.

Fuchs, Elinor. "Postmodernism and the Scene of Theater." In Fuchs, The Death of Character: Perspectives on Theater after Modernism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996. 144-58.*

_____. "The Death of Character." (Postmodernism in drama). 1983. In Fuchs, The Death of Character: Perspectives on Theater after Modernism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996.*

Gramma/Gramma 10 (2002): "Theatres in the Age of New Technologies." Ed. Elizabeth Sakellaridou and Savas Patsalidis. Aristotle U of Thessaloniki.

Grotowsky, Jerzy. Towards a Poor Theatre. London: Methuen, 1969.

_____. Towards a Poor Theatre. Ed. Eugenio Barba. 1969.

_____. Teatro de laboratorio. Barcelona: Tusquets, 1980.

Hayman, Ronald. Samuel Beckett. 1968. 3rd ed. London: Heinemann, 1980.*

_____. Artaud and After. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1977.

Hilton, Julian, ed. New Directions in Theatre. (New Directions in Theatre series). Houndmills: Macmillan, 1993.

Hunt, Albert. Hopes for Great Happenings: Alternatives in Education and Theatre. London: Eyre Methuen, 1976.

Innes, Christopher. Avant-Garde Theatre, 1892-1992. London: Routledge, 1993.*

Kleberg, Lars. Theatre as Action: Soviet Russian Avant-Garde Aesthetics. (New Directions in Theatre). Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993.

Klein Hagen, Hildegard. "Notes on Post-Modernism and Two Postmodern Plays." In XVIII Congreso de AEDEAN (Alcalá de Henares, 15-17 diciembre 1994). Ed. Ricardo J. Sola, Luis A. Lázaro and José A. Gurpegui. Alcalá: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alcalá, 1997. 647-54.*

_____. "La nueva estética en la escena londinense al final del milenio: un teatro experimental y provocador." In De habitaciones propias y otros espacios conquistados: Estudios sobre mujeres y literatura en lengua inglesa en homenaje a Blanca López Román. Ed. Margarita Carretero González, Mª Elena Rodríguez Martín and Gerardo Rodríguez Salas. Granada: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Granada, 2006.

Kubiak, Anthony. Agitated States: Performance in the American Theatre of Cruelty. Ann Arbor: Michigan UP, 2002.

Kustov, Michael. theatre@risk. London: Methuen, 2001.

Laurel, Brenda. Computers as Theatre. Reading (MA): Addison-Wesley Longman, 1991. 1993.

Ley, Graham, and Jane Milling. "Conclusion: After Modern Theory." In Ley and Milling, Performance and Theory from Stanislavski to Boal. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000.

Macgowan, Kenneth. "The Plastic Stage." Chap. 7 of The Theatre of Tomorrow. New York: Boni, 1921. 102-09.

_____. The Theatre of Tomorrow. New York: Boni, 1921.

Marranca, Bonnie, and Gautam Dasgupta, eds. Theatre of the Ridiculous. 1979. Rev. ed. (Paj Books). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. (Ronald Tavel, Charles Ludlam, Kenneth Bernard).

Nicholson, Steve. "'Irritating Tricks': Aesthetic Experimentation and Political Theatre." In Rewriting the Thirties: Modernism and After. Ed. Keith Williams and Steven Matthews. Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman, 1997. 147-62.*

Pronko, Leon Cabell. Avant-Garde: The Experimental Theatre in France. Berkeley: U of California P, 1964.

_____. Théâtre d'avant-garde.  Paris: Denoël.

Rebellato, Dan, and Chris Megson. "15. 'Theatre and Anti-theatre': David Hare and Public Speaking." In The Cambridge Companion to David Hare. Ed. Richard Boon. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. 236-49.*

Redmond, James. "Silence and Stasis in Modern Drama." In Anatomies of Silence. Ed. Ann R. Cacoullos and Maria Sifianou. Athens: U of Athens, 1998. 71-80.*

Reitz, Bernhard, and Peter Paul Schnierer, eds. Beyond the Mainstream. (German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English conference proceedings). Trier: Wissenschaftliche Verlag, 1997.

Richardson, Brian. "6. Unnatural Narration in Contemporary Drama." In Richardson, Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction. (Theory and Interpretation of Narrative series). Ohio State UP, 2006. 106-13.*

Roose-Evans, James. Experimental Theatre: From Stanislavsky to Peter Brooks. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 1989.

Sakellaridou, Elizabeth. "Exporting an Aesthetic, Importing Another? Experimental (Ad)ventures in Contemporary British Theatre." Gramma/Gramma 10 (2002): 157-70.*

Saltz, David Z. "Performing Arts." In A Companion to Digital Humanities. Ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth, eds. Malden (MA): Blackwell, 2004. 121-31.*

Sarrazac, Jean–Pierre. "El impersonaje. Una relectura de la crisis del personaje."  Revista de Literatura: Teoría, Historia, Crítica (Departamento de Literatura, Universidad Nacional de Colombia) 8 (2006): 353-69.

http://www.bdigital.unal.edu.co/14118/1/3-7906-PB.pdf

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_____. Juegos de sueño y otros rodeos: alternativas a la fábula en la dramaturgia. Trad. de Victor Viviescas. México: Conaculta, 2011.

_____. Poétique du drame moderne. De Henrik Ibsen à Bernard-Marie Koltès. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2012.

Sartre, Jean-Paul. "Pour un théâtre de situations." (Nov. 1947).

_____. Un théâtre de situations. 1973.

Schwanecke, Christine. "8. From Stories in Drama to the Drama of (Performed) Stories: Late-Twentieth and Early-Twentieth-First-Century Dissolutions of Established Generic Traditions." In Schwanecke, A Narratology of Drama. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2022. 304-57.* (Peter Shaffer, Amadeus; debbie tucker green, stoning mary; Lucy Prebble, Enron; Intermediality).

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Shank, Theodore. "Framing Actuality: Thirty Years of Experimental Theater, 1959-89." In Around the Absurd.  Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 239-72.*

Sobieski, Lynn. "Breaking the Boundaries: The People Show, Lumiere & Son and Hesitate and Demonstrate." In Contemporary British Theatre. Ed. T. Shank. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994. 89-106.

Strauss, Botho. Crítica teatral: Las nuevas fronteras. 1989.

Styan, J. L. "8. The Forms of Things Unknown: Realism and Beyond." In Styan, Drama: A Guide to the Study of Plays. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. 2003. 2004.*

Trussler, Simon. "21. Alternative Theatres 1968-1979." In Trussler, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. pbk 2000. 338-61.* (Theatre and the 'events' of 1968. Stirrings on the fringe. The permissive society and the abolition of censorship. The Arts Lab, new spaces, and the legacy of 'cruelty'. Collective creation and environmental theatre. Into the 'seventies: agitational and political theatre. Community groups, the arts centre movement, and theatre-in-education. New writing moves into the mainstream. Joint  Stock and the Royal Court. Changes at the National and the RSC. Feminist, gay, and ethnic theatre. The Arts Council in a changing climate).

_____. "22. Theatre and the Marketplace 1979-1990." In Trussler, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. pbk 2000. 362-77. (Politics and economics of Thatcherism. Sponsorship and the theatre. The Arts Council in the 'eighties—and some clients. Institutional and West End theatre. The decade of the musical. The international dimension. The fringe: from counter-culture to chamber theatre. Alternative comedy. Female and male: directors, actors, dramatists. Plays for changing times. Heritage as theatre, the taste for spectacle, and the curious case of karaoke. The theatre of the streets, and a cautionary tale).

Vanden Heuvel, Michael. Performing Drama / Dramatizing Performance: Alternative Theater and the Dramatic Text. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1991.*

Weimann, Robert. "Shakespeare's Theater: Tradition and Experiment." In Shakespearean Tragedy. Ed. John Drakakis. London: Longman, 1992. 117-52.*

_____. "Shakespeare's Theater: Tradition and Experiment." In Shakespeare: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1945-2000. Ed. Russ McDonald. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.*

Weiner, Bernard. "The Absurd, To and Fro." In Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama. Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 273-78.*

Wellwarth, George E. Spanish Underground Drama. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1972.*

_____. (George E. Wellworth). Spanish Underground Drama (Teatro español underground). Trans. Carmen Hierro. Introd. and notes Alberto Miralles. Madrid: Villalar, 1978.*

Whitmore, Jon. Directing Postmodern Theater: Shaping Signification in Performance. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1994.

Worth, Catharine J. Revolutions in Modern English Drama. G. Bell & Sons, 1972.

 

 

 

 

Dictionaries and encyclopedias

 

 

Sarrazac, Jean–Pierre, ed. Léxico del drama moderno y contemporáneo. Trans. Víctor Viviescas. México, Paso de Gato, 2011.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Journals

 

 

Alternatives Théâtrales

 

Zapiski peredvizhnogo teatra. Ed. Pavel Nikolaevich Medvedev. From 1922.

 

 

 

 

 

See also Avant-garde.