{"product_id":"9781350055452","title":"Performing the Unstageable : Success, Imagination, Failure","description":"\u003cstrong\u003ePerforming the Unstageable\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Karen Quigley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the gouging out of eyes in Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e or Sarah Kane's\u003ci\u003e Cleansed\u003c\/i\u003e, to the adaptation of Philip Pullman's \u003ci\u003eHis Dark Materials\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, theatre has long been intrigued by the staging of challenging plays and impossible texts, images or ideas. \u003ci\u003ePerforming the Unstageable: Success, Imagination, Failure \u003c\/i\u003eexamines this phenomenon of what the theatre cannot do or has not been able to do at various points in its history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book explores four principal areas to which unstageability most frequently pertains: stage directions, adaptations, violence and ghosts. Karen Quigley incorporates a wide range of case studies of  both historical and contemporary theatrical productions including the Wooster Group's exploration of\u003ci\u003e Hamlet\u003c\/i\u003e via the structural frame of John Gielgud's 1964 filmed production, Elevator Repair Service's eight-hour staging of Fitzgerald's \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e and  a selection of impossible stage directions drawn from works by such playwrights as Eugene O'Neill, Philip Glass, Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane and Alistair McDowall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlacing theatre history and performance analysis in such a context, \u003ci\u003ePerforming the Unstageable\u003c\/i\u003e values what is not possible, and investigates the tricky underside of theatre's most fundamental function to bring things to the place of showing: the stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Takes us into the rehearsals rooms and across the centuries with an impressive array of references to a collection of well known and forgotten texts along the way.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350055452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40722236309710,"sku":"9781350055452","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_395fb6e1-71d5-437b-a4e4-0e76bb616614.jpg?v=1641103501","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350055452","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}