Loading…

Ludics in surrealist theatre and beyond /

This study reconsiders Surrealist theatre specifically from the perspective of ludics-a poetics of play and games-an ideal approach to the Surrealists, whose games blur the boundaries between the 'playful' and the 'serious.' Beginning with the Surrealists' 'one-into-ano...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rapti, Vassiliki
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2013.
Series:Ashgate studies in surrealism.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Does surrealist theatre exist?
  • The surrealist game "one into another" in Nadja and Les Détraquées: reconstructing André Breton's Ludic dramatic theory
  • Staging "mad love" in the théâtre Alfred Garry: Breton's Ludic dramatic theory in practice
  • Staging child's play in Roger Vitrac's victor or children in power: between Paidia and Ludus
  • Playing with language: Antonin Artaud's Paidia and Robert Wilson's Ludus
  • Mimicry and post-surrealist Ludics in Megan Terry's "Theatre of transformations."