{"product_id":"katie-mitchell-benjamin-fowler-9781138082366","title":"Katie Mitchell: Beautiful Illogical Acts","description":"\u003cem\u003eKatie Mitchell: Beautiful Illogical Acts\u003c\/em\u003e offers the first comprehensive study of Britain's most internationally recognised, influential, and controversial theatre director. It examines Mitchell's innovations in fourth-wall realism, opera, and Live Cinema across major British and European institutions, bringing three decades of practice vividly to life. \u003cp\u003eInformed by first-hand rehearsal observations and in-depth conversations with the director and her collaborators, Fowler investigates the intense and immersive qualities of Mitchell's distinctive theatrical realism and challenges mainstream narratives about realism as a defunct or inherently conservative genre. He explores Mitchell's theatre-and its often polarised reception-to question familiar assumptions governing contemporary performance criticism, including common binaries that pit realism against radical experimentation, auteurs against texts, feminists against Naturalism, and Britain against Europe. By examining a career trajectory that intersects with huge cultural change, Fowler places Mitchell at the centre of urgent contemporary debates about cultural transformation and its genuinely inclusive potential.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is an essential book for those interested in Katie Mitchell, British theatre, directing, the transformative power of realism and feminism in contemporary theatre practice, and challenges to hierarchical distributions of power inside the mainstream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Fowler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138082368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138082366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Benjamin Fowler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44126952390911,"sku":"9781138082366","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a3012eb2-cce6-4af1-b3ca-1aff6fe171f3.jpg?v=1687451055","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/katie-mitchell-benjamin-fowler-9781138082366","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}