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Theatre & Everyday Life: An Ethics of Performance. By Alan Read. London: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xii + 260. £33.99/$58.95 Pb.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2020

Martin Harries*
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine, [email protected]

Abstract

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Double Take
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 2020

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NOTES

1 A longer consideration of this question might put Read in dialogue with Nicholas Ridout's claim that the ‘work that would provoke a truly ethical response, in Levinas’ terms, would be that work which appeared, at least, to have no ethical ambition whatsoever’. Ridout, Nicholas, Theatre & Ethics (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), p. 67CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 See Joseph, Miranda, Against the Romance of Community (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), p. 1Google Scholar.

3 Alan Read, ‘Lay Theatre and the Eruption of the Audience’, Stages, 5 (September 2016), special issue on community arts, at www.biennial.com/journal/issue-5/lay-theatre-and-the-eruption-of-the-audience, accessed 20 June 2020. Read's recent Dark Theatre: A Book about Loss (London: Routledge, 2020) also revisits his experience with the workshop.