{"product_id":"9781474281690","title":"Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance: The Initiation of History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Initiation of History \u003c\/i\u003econsiders the three categories of time that can be thought to occur specifically in theatre and performance: inceptions, births, or initiations of human history. Each of these temporalities works against what are often thought to be theatre's prevailing temporal mechanisms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaurya Wickstrom grounds her analysis in the theories of three leading philosophers: Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, and Antonio Negri. She considers the ways in which theatre and performance responds to the questions of the new present, penultimate time, and our normative experience of time. Specific productions examined include: Hofesh Schechter's \u003ci\u003ePolitical Mother\u003c\/i\u003e, Andrew Schneider's \u003ci\u003eYou are Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e, Romeo Castellucci's \u003ci\u003eOn the Concept of the Face\u003c\/i\u003e, Dead Centre's \u003ci\u003eLippy\u003c\/i\u003e, Cassils' \u003ci\u003eTerisias\u003c\/i\u003e, Carl Theodor Dreyer's silent 1928 film, \u003ci\u003eThe Passion of Joan of Arc\u003c\/i\u003e, George Bernard Shaw's \u003ci\u003eSt. Joan\u003c\/i\u003e, C.L.R. James' \u003ci\u003eToussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History\u003c\/i\u003e, Aimé Césaire's \u003ci\u003eThe Tragedy of King Christophe: A Play\u003c\/i\u003e, Edouard Glissant's \u003ci\u003eMonsieur Toussaint: A Play\u003c\/i\u003e, Brecht's \u003ci\u003eDrums in the Night\u003c\/i\u003e, and Heiner Muller's \u003ci\u003eThe Task\u003c\/i\u003e. The book fits within what has been called 'the temporal turban' in the arts and will be among the first books in theatre studies to wrestle with the phenomenological concept of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048540455152,"sku":"9781474281690","price":102.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781474281690_p0.jpg?v=1769893342","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781474281690","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}