Performance Theory

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By Richard Schechner

Series: Routledge Classics

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Performance Theory by Richard Schechner is a groundbreaking exploration of the nature of performance. Challenging traditional views, Schechner argues that performance extends beyond the theatre stage into everyday life, encompassing ritual, play, psychotherapy, and shamanism. Drawing connections between Western and non-Western cultures, theatre and dance, and anthropology, this collection revolutionises how we understand drama and ritual.
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This book is essential reading for students and scholars of theatre, anthropology, cultural studies, and performance arts, as well as anyone interested in the deeper meanings behind everyday actions and rituals.

This cogent and provocative compilation of essays is now a classic text for students of the emergent discipline of performance studies.

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Few have had quite as much impact in both the academy and in the world of theatre production as Richard Schechner. For more than four decades, his work has challenged conventional definitions of theatre, ritual, and performance.

When this seminal collection first appeared, Schechner's approach was not only novel, it was revolutionary: drama is not just something that occurs on stage, but something that happens in everyday life, full of meaning, and on many different levels.

Within these pages, he examines the connections between Western and non-Western cultures, theatre and dance, anthropology, ritual, performance in everyday life, rites of passage, play, psychotherapy, and shamanism.