TY - BOOK ID - 80834423 TI - Liveness on Stage PY - 2014 SN - 9783110395044 3110395045 9783110346534 3110346532 9783110346541 3110346540 3110345900 9783110345902 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Theater KW - Experimental theater KW - Dramatics KW - Histrionics KW - Professional theater KW - Stage KW - Theatre KW - Performing arts KW - Acting KW - Actors KW - Fringe theater KW - History KW - Technological innovations KW - Film and Video. KW - Intermediality. KW - Theatre and Performance. KW - Theatre. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80834423 AB - Theatre is traditionally considered a live medium but its 'liveness' can no longer simply be taken for granted in view of the increasing mediatisation of the stage. Drawing on theories of intermediality, Liveness on Stage explores how performances that incorporate film or video self-reflexively stage and challenge their own liveness by contrasting or approximating live and mediatised action. To illustrate this, the monograph investigates key aspects such as 'ephemerality', 'co-presence', 'unpredictability', 'interaction' and 'realistic representation' and highlights their significance for re-evaluating received notions of liveness. The analysis is based on productions by Gob Squad, Forkbeard Fantasy, Station House Opera, Proto-type Theater, Tim Etchells and Mary Oliver. In their playful approaches these practitioners predominantly present such media combination as a means of cross-fertilisation rather than as an antagonism between liveness and mediatisation. Combining an original theoretical approach with an in-depth analysis of the selected productions, this study will appeal to scholars and practitioners of theatre and performance as well as to those researching intermedial phenomena. ER -