Signs of Performance

Signs of Performanceprovides the beginning student with working examples of theatrical analysis. Its range covers the whole of twentieth century theatre, from Stanislavski to Brecht and Samuel Beckett to Robert Wilson. Colin Counsell takes an historical look at theatre as a cultural practice, clearly tracing connections between * Key practitioners' ideas about performanc * The theatrical practices prompted by those idea * The resulting signs which emerge in performanc * The meanings and political consequences of those sign It provides an understandable theoretical framework for the study of theatre as a an signifying practice, and offers vivid explanations in clear, direct language. It opens up this fascinating field to a broad audience.