Name: The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy: Gambling, Drama, and the Unexpected (en Inglés)
Price: 34110.00 CLP
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Author: Edwin Wong
ISBN: 9781525537554

portada The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy: Gambling, Drama, and the Unexpected (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Friesenpress

Autor

Edwin Wong

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

378

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781525537554

Categorías

Obras de teatro

The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy: Gambling, Drama, and the Unexpected (en Inglés)

Edwin Wong (Autor) · Friesenpress · Tapa Dura

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READERS' FAVORITE BOOK AWARDS WINNERCIPA EVVY BOOK AWARDS WINNERNATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS WINNER WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILLThe Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial intelligence, gene editing, globalization, and mutual assured destruction ideologies. Tragedy, according to risk theatre, puts us face to face with the unexpected implications of our actions by simulating the profound impact of highly improbable events.In this book, classicist Edwin Wong shows how tragedy imitates reality: heroes, by taking inordinate risks, trigger devastating low-probability, high-consequence outcomes. Such a theatre forces audiences to ask themselves a most timely question---what happens when the perfect bet goes wrong?Not only does Wong reinterpret classic tragedies from Aeschylus to O'Neill through the risk theatre lens, he also invites dramatists to create tomorrow's theatre. As the world becomes increasingly unpredictable, the most compelling dramas will be high-stakes tragedies that dramatize the unintended consequences of today's risk takers who are taking us past the point of no return....