The Theatre of Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson, the leading American avant-garde theatre director, revolutionised the stage by making visual communication more important than words. His productions cut across the boundaries that traditionally have defined theatre, dance, opera and the visual arts to create a total work of art. This book, the first comprehensive study of Wilson, traces the evolution of the director's astonishing career as well as his complex relationship to language and his visual rhetoric. It explains how he...
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The first comprehensive study of the leading American avant-garde theatre director Robert Wilson.
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsChronology1Contextualizing Wilson: from semiotics to semantics12The cracked kettle413Alchemy of the eye764The deep surface1215The dream work1526The valley of the shadow: trauma and transcendence1827An eye with a mind of its own: the revolution continues200Notes204Select bibliography218Index226
