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Signs of Performance: An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Theatre
Signs of Performance An Introduction to TwentiethCentury Theatre Author:Colin Counsell Signs of Performance: A Student's Guide provides the beginning student with working examples of theatrical analysis. Its range covers the whole of twentieth-century theatre, from Stanislavski to Brecht and Samuel Beckett to Robert Wilson. Colin Counsell takes a historical look at theatre as a cultural practice, clearly tracing connections betwee... more »n key practitioners' own ideas about performance; the theatrical practices prompted by those ideas; the resulting signs which emerge in performance; the meanings and political consequences of those signs. This is an Everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-performance" book, and opens up this fascinating field to a broad audience.« less