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Certain Fragments: Contemporary Performance and Forced Entertainment

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An exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, it investigates the process of devising performance, theatre's interdisciplinary role, and the city's influence.

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First published April 8, 1999

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April 30, 2021
Tim Etchell's essays are some of the most probing and eloquent writing on theatre and performance art. The photographs of Forced Entertainment's rehearsals and productions are beautiful. The performance scripts fail to convey the mysterious and strange power concocted by their productions, and Etchell's program notes and journalistic pieces on other experimental artists lack the power of his earlier essays. This book conjures the experimental performance scene of the 1990s like few other texts, and will make you wistful for a time with real possibilities and potentials, before neoliberal capital enwrapped society in a chokehold.
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January 22, 2024
Strange and interesting guy interested in the political meanings in performance structure
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October 23, 2014
Some parts are interesting and useful accounts of their methods. The rest is indecipherable twaddle, badly written.
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