Theatre and the Threshold of Death : Lectures on the Dying Arts Hardback
by Kathleen (Academic Marketing) Gough
Part of the Thinking Through Theatre series
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On the eve of a global pandemic, Kathleen Gough, a theatre professor, becomes immersed in the lives of five artist-mystics, each of whom is a pioneer in her field: Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), the first known musical composer; Eleanora Duse (1858-1924), the first modern actor in the Western world; Simone Weil (1909-1943), philosopher, activist, and mystic, whom Albert Camus called “the only great spirit of our timeâ€; Marina Abramovic (b. 1946), “the grandmother of performance artâ€; and Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), the first known (and belatedly acknowledged) abstract painter.
Each time Gough crosses a threshold into their world, she is compelled to attend courses, seminars and workshops that are simultaneously about dying and healing. Curious to learn more about the relationships between art practice, dying, and healing, Gough imagines the five artists as wisdom teachers in a mystery school.
In a series of eight lectures, she turns to performance theory to provide a framework for engaging with the unknown world.
In Theatre and the Threshold of Death, Gough makes a persuasive argument for the world-making power of relational thinking in our increasingly polarized age.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages, 15 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:25/01/2024
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- ISBN:9781350385511
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages, 15 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:25/01/2024
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- ISBN:9781350385511