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Autobiography in Performance: Performing Selves (Theatre and Performance Practices)

by Deirdre Heddon

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What is the relationship between past and present in performance, given that the performing body is tangibly present in the here and now? What is the relationship between performance and authenticity? Between live, apparently 'confessional' performance and supposedly 'reality' television? Autobiography in Performance will provide a broad overview of the key concepts perta

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Paperback , 224 pages

Published December 15th 2007 by Palgrave Macmillan

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