Verlag:
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson
Railway travel has definitely influenced modern theatre's sense of space and time. Early in the 20th century, breakthroughs--ranging from F.T. Marinetti's futurist manifestos to epic theatre's first use of the treadmill--explored the mechanical...
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Railway travel has definitely influenced modern theatre's sense of space and time. Early in the 20th century, breakthroughs--ranging from F.T. Marinetti's futurist manifestos to epic theatre's first use of the treadmill--explored the mechanical rhythms and perceptual effects of railway travel to investigate history, technology, and motion. After World War II, some playwrights and auteur directors, from Armand Gatti to Robert Wilson to Amiri Baraka, looked to locomotion not as a radically new space and time but as a reminder of obsolescence, complicity in the Holocaust, and its role in uprootin
Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Theatre and Locomotion; Part I. Upholstered Realism and the Great Futurist Railroad; One. The Upholstered Realism of Henrik Ibsen; Two. F.T. Marinetti's "Great Futurist Railroad"; Part II. Loco Motion: Railway Perception, Relativity and the Stage; Three. Stanislaw Witkiewicz's The Crazy Locomotive; Four. Staging Relativity: Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach; Part III. Staging Relativity: Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach
Five. The Locomotive Technology of Epic Theatre: Erwin Piscator's Adventures of the Good Soldier SchwejkSix. Locomotion After Auschwitz: Armand Gatti's Seven Possibilities for Train 713 Departing from Auschwitz; Part IV. Locomotive Social Space on the American Stage; Seven. The American Train of Thought: Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha; Eight. "In the flying underbelly of the city": Amiri Baraka's Dutchman; Afterword: End of the Line?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
