Clockfire
Jonathan Ball
- 104 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Clockfire
Jonathan Ball
About This Book
Talented newcomer Jonathan Ball's Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce â plays in which, for example, the director burns out the sun, actors murder their audience, and the laws of physics are flagrantly violated. The poems in one sense replace the need for drama, and are predicated on the idea that modern theatre lacks both 'clocks' and 'fire' and thus fails to offer its audiences immediate, violent engagement. They sometimes resemble the scores for Fluxus 'happenings, ' but they replace the casual aesthetic and DIY simplicity of Fluxus art with something more akin to the brutality of Artaud's theatre of cruelty. Italo Calvino as rewritten by H. P. Lovecraft, Ball's 'plays' break free of the constraints of reality and artistic category to revel in their own dazzling, magnificent horror.
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The plots endless
To the theatre its themes
The Doppelgängers
Each actor has her character
If the Sun Still Burns
The language of the theatre
The Mirrored Stage