Avant Garde Theatre: 1892-1992

by Christopher Innes

Book Overview

Examining the development of avant garde theatre from its inception in the 1890s right up to the present day, Christopher Innes exposes a central paradox of modern theatre; that the motivating force of theatrical experimentation is primitivism. What links the work of Strindberg, Artaud, Brook and Mnouchkine is an idealisation of the elemental and a desire to find ritual in archaic traditions. This widespread primitivism is the key to understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415065186
• ISBN13: 9780415065184
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"