{ "item_title" : "Reality Principles", "item_author" : [" Herbert Blau "], "item_description" : "Herbert Blau's long sustained inquiry into theater's most provocative questions--presence, liveness, and finitude--are, at their deepest level, queries into life. Reality Principles returns us to Blau's inspiring provocations and extends them to new subjects--9/11 and Ground Zero, the nature of charisma, Pirandello and Strindberg.--Peggy Phelan, Stanford UniversityReality Principles gathers recent essays by esteemed scholar and theater practitioner Herbert Blau covering a range of topics. The book's provocative essays--including The Emotional Memory of Directing, The Faith-Based Initiative of the Theater of the Absurd, Virtually Yours: Presence, Liveness, Lessness, The Human Nature of the Bot--were given as keynotes and/or memorial lectures and are collected here for the first time. The essays take up a remarkable array of topics--from body art and the self-inflicted punishments of Stelarc, Orlan, and the Viennese Actionists, to Ground Zero and 9/11--and allow Blau to address critical questions of theater and theory, performance and relevance, the absurd and the virtual, history and illusion, community and memory. Reality Principles offers a panoramic view of Herbert Blau's perspectives on life and the imitation of life on stage.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/47/205/151/0472051512_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "36.95", "online_price" : "36.95", "our_price" : "36.95", "club_price" : "36.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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