Clockfire
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Clockfire

Jonathan Ball

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Jonathan Ball

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Talented newcomer Jonathan Ball's Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce – 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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Year
2006
ISBN
9781770562752
Playbook
Entering the theatre

A New History
All Their Words
Alone
And the Old Gods
Any Animal
As Children Might
The Audience Is Called
The Audience Wants More
Autography
Breakdown
The Burning Bush


The plots endless


But
Catharsis
Cell
Cities of the World
City Dionysia
Clockfire
The Coffee Shop
Contact
Creation
Deus Ex Machina
Dig


To the theatre its themes


The Doppelgängers
The Drama of the Locked Door
Dreams
Eight Minutes
Empty
End
The Future
Ghosts
Gun
Hostages
The Ice Queen


Each actor has her character


If the Sun Still Burns
Improv
In Photographs
Into the Theatre
Isolation
Like Lambs
Little by Little
Lunch
The Magic Show
The Memory Theatre
Messiah


The language of the theatre


The Mirrored Stage
The Music
Oedipus
Of War
Ophelia
Outnumbered
The Play Begins
The Play Is Over
Pomegranates
...

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