Staging Technology

Through an examination of a range of performance works ranging from Jean Cocteau's ballet The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party (1921) to Julie Taymor's monumental production of Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark (2010) and Mexican playwright Isaac Gomez's La Ruta(2018), Staging Technology asks what becomes visible when we encounter plays, operas, and musicals that are themselves about fraught human/machine interfaces. What can theatrical production tell us about the way technology functions as an element of ideology and power in narrative drama? About the limits of the human? Staging Technology bridges the divide between the technical practices of theatre production and critical, theoretical approaches to interpreting drama to examine the way dramatic theatre's technologies are shaped by larger historical, ideological, and economic forces. At the same time, it examines how those technologies themselves have influenced 20th and 21st-century playwrights', composers', and librettists' choice of subject matter for staged representation. Examining performance works from the modernist and post-modern European and American canon of drama, opera, and performance art including works by Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Heiner Müller, Sophie Treadwell, Harold Pinter, Tristan Tzara, Jean Cocteau, Arthur Miller, Robert Pinsky, John Adams and Alice Goodman, Staging Technology transforms how we think about the interrelationship between theatre practice, performance, narrative drama, and text. In it Craig N. Owens synthesizes approaches to interpretation and practice from disparate realms, offering insights into over-arching ways of making meaning that are illustrated through focused and innovative readings of individual works for the dramatic stage. Staging Technology provides a new and transformative paradigm for thinking about dramatic literature, the practices of representational theatre production, and the historical and social contexts they inhabit.

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). The First International Conference on Energy and Environmental Protection (ICEEP 2012) was organized by the Inner Mongolia University in Hohhot, China, and took place on the 23rd and 24th June, 2012. The ICEEP2012 brought together experts from a range of disciplines, with the intent of discussing problems and their solutions, of identifying new issues, of shaping future directions for research in these areas, as well as helping industrial users to apply advanced techniques. The present volumes contain selected papers which provide up-to-date, comprehensive and worldwide state-of-the art knowledge in the fields of Engineering Thermophysics; Thermal Engineering; Power Machinery and Engineering; Fluids, Fluid Machinery and Engineering; HVAC, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration; Power Systems and Automation; High Voltage and Insulation Technology; Motors and Electrical; Electrical Theory and Electrical Devices; Power Electronics and Power Drives.

This stimulating book proposes the concept of staging as a tool for planning and facilitating design and innovation activities. Drawing on a predominantly Scandinavian tradition of participatory design research and sociotechnical perspectives from actor–network theory, it discusses how staging can enable co-design, sustainable transitions and social and radical innovation.

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A lively, beautifully illustrated history of theatrical stage design from ancient Greek times to the present, coauthored by the world's leading authority, Oscar G. Brockett.

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