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Title
Railway travel in modern theatre
Type
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Monograph
Language
English
Classification
LCC: PN1861 .K95 2014
DDC: 809.2/93558 full
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Summary
"Early in the 20th century, breakthroughs explored the mechanical rhythms and perceptual effects of railway travel to investigate history, technology, and motion. By analyzing theatrical representations of railway travel, this book argues that modern theatre's perceptual, historical and social productions of space and time were stretched by theatre's attempts to stage the locomotive"-- Provided by publisher.
Table Of Contents
Theatre and locomotion
Upholstered realism and the great futurist railroad
The upholstered realism of Henrik Ibsen
F.T. Marinetti's "Great futurist railroad"
Loco motion : railway perception, relativity and the stage
Stanisław Witkiewicz's The crazy locomotive
Staging relativity : Robert Wilson's Einstein on the beach
History, the railroad and political theatre
The locomotive technology of epic theatre : Erwin Piscator's Adventures of the good soldier Schwejk
Locomotion after Auschwitz : Armand Gatti's Seven possibilities for train 713 departing from Auschwitz
Locomotive social space on the American stage
The American train of thought : Thornton Wilder's Pullman car Hiawatha
In the flying underbelly of the city : Amiri Baraka's Dutchman.
Authorized Access Point
Gillette, Kyle, 1979- Railway travel in modern theatre