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Beyond Failure : New Essays on the Cultural History of Failure in Theatre and Performance, Paperback / softback Book

Beyond Failure : New Essays on the Cultural History of Failure in Theatre and Performance Paperback / softback

Edited by Tony Fisher, Eve Katsouraki

Paperback / softback

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In setting foot on stage, every performer risks the possiblity of failure.

Indeed, the very performance of any human action is inextricable from its potential not to succeed.

This inherent potential has become a key critical trope in contemporary theatre, performance studies, and scholarship around visual cultures.

Beyond Failure explores what it means for our understanding not just of theatrical practice but of human social and cultural activity more broadly.

The essays in this volume tackle contemporary debates around the theory and poetics of failure, suggesting that in the absence of success can be found a defiance and hopefulness that points to new ways of knowing and being in the world.

Beyond Failure offers a unique and engaging approach for students and practitioners interested not only in the impact of failure on the stage, but what it means for wider social and cultural debates.

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