Clockfire
eBook - ePub

Clockfire

  1. 104 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Clockfire

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Coach House Books
Year
2006
Print ISBN
9781552452363
eBook ISBN
9781770562752
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Canadian Poetry
Index
Literature
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
...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Playbook
  5. Entering the Theatre
  6. The Plots endless
  7. To the Theatre its Themes
  8. Each Actor has Her Character
  9. The Language of the Theatre
  10. Whether Music or Silence
  11. What Spectacle
  12. Exit the Theatre
  13. Acknowledgements
  14. About the Author