Clockfire
by 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 show more resemble the scores for Fluxus 'happenings,' but they replace the casual aesthetic and DIY sim show lessTags
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2010-10-01
- Epigraph
- '… the pool of energies which constitute Myths, which man no longer embodies, is embodied by the theatre.'
– Antonin Artaud - Dedication
- The gauntlet, thrown
- First words
- Entering the theatre, you dream what brought you here.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Offer your life to the labyrinth, your eyes to its endless, impossible walls.
- Blurbers
- Kroetsch, Robert; Wharton, Thomas
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- 16
- Popularity
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- Rating
- (4.00)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 2
- ASINs
- 1
