“In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with authority and resist such collusion by refusing to establish itself as the charismatic Other.” AuthorityTheatreResistanceCharismaticPostmodernCollusion Book:From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism Source: From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism
“To move from a discussion of the early relationship between theatre and television to an examination of the current situation of live performance is to confront the irony that whereas television initially sought to replicate and, implicitly, to replace live theatre, live performance itself has developed since that time toward the replication of the discourse of mediatization.” MovingSituationTelevisionPerformancesCurrentsTheatreIronyDiscussionDiscourseExaminationReplicateLive PerformanceCurrent SituationReplicationLive Theatre Book:Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture Source: Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture
