Clockfire

Jonathan Ball

• Verlag: Coach House Books
• Jahr: 2006
• ISBN:
  9781770562752
• Thema: Literatur
• Thema: Kanadische Poesie

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.

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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