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Clockfire.
Title:
Clockfire.
Author:
Ball, Jonathan.
ISBN:
9781770562752
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (99 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Playbook -- Entering the Theatre -- A New History -- All Their Words -- Alone -- And the Old Gods -- Any Animal -- As Children Might -- The Audience is Called -- The Audience Wants More -- Autography -- Breakdown -- The Burning Bush -- The Plots endless -- But -- Catharsis -- Cell -- Cities of the World -- City Dionysia -- Clockfire -- The Coffee Shop -- Contact -- Creation -- Deus Ex Machina -- Dig -- To the Theatre its Themes -- The Doppelgängers -- The Drama of the Locked Door -- Dreams -- Eight Minutes -- Empty -- End -- The Future -- Ghosts -- Gun -- Hostages -- The Ice Queen -- Each Actor has Her Character -- If the Sun Still Burns -- Improv -- In Photographs -- Into the Theatre -- Isolation -- Like Lambs -- Little by Little -- Lunch -- The Magic Show -- The Memory Theatre -- Messiah -- The Language of the Theatre -- The Mirrored Stage -- The Music -- Oedipus -- Of War -- Ophelia -- Outnumbered -- The Play Begins -- The Play is Over -- Pomegranates -- Red Herrings -- The Repetition Compulsion -- Whether Music or Silence -- Retrospective -- Review -- Revolt -- Sasquatch -- Seven Generations -- Sidjeen and Illiyun -- Something Comes Out -- Something We Have not Yet Seen -- The Story So Far -- Surveillance -- Tabula Rasa -- What Spectacle -- Taken Apart -- They Come Back -- To Forget -- To the Stars -- The Tower of Babel -- The Trojan War -- Untitled -- The Waters Are Rising -- Where is the Audience? -- The Willing Suspension of Disbelief -- Wormwood -- Exit the Theatre -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author.
Abstract:
Talented newcomer Jonathan Ball’s Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce  plays in which, for example, the director burns out the sun, actors murder their audience, and the laws of physics are flagrantly violated. The poems in one sense replace the need for drama, and are predicated on the idea that modern theatre lacks both 'clocks' and 'fire' and thus fails to offer its audiences immediate, violent engagement. They sometimes resemble the scores for Fluxus 'happenings,' but they replace the casual aesthetic and DIY simplicity of Fluxus art with something more akin to the brutality of Artaud’s theatre of cruelty. Italo Calvino as rewritten by H. P. Lovecraft, Ball’s 'plays' break free of the constraints of reality and artistic category to revel in their own dazzling, magnificent horror.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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