How do audiences look at an actor in costume onstage? Monks explores this question, engaging with the main theoretical approaches to the study of actors inperformance. The book considers costume's power to shape identity and form bodies drawing on examples from Modernist performance to nudity and stage ghosts. INDICE: Introduction: The Dress Rehearsal - Dressing-Up: The Actor's Body and Costume - Dressing the Audience: A History of Fashion at the Theatre - Re-dressing the Actor: Modernist Costume - Cross-dressing: Authenticity and Identity - Undressing: The Disappointments of Nudity - Dressing the Immaterial: TheProblem of Ghosts - Epilogue - After-Effects: Costume and the Memory of Performance
- ISBN: 978-0-230-21700-3
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 176
- Fecha Publicación: 10/12/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés