Andrew Sofer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1509623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Sofer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Sofer |
| SIGNATURE | SOFER A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Catastrophe Practices and the Ontological Gambit
This article explores three experimental closet dramas by British writer Nicholas Mosley, part of the novel Catastrophe Practice (1979), which deserve wider recognition in the context of theatre studies' current focus on catastrophe and futurity. Mosley's enigmatic "Plays for Not Acting" promote a leap in consciousness, fostering fresh mental patterns to invigorate humanity. This evolutionary leap, which can be practiced for, is akin to a catastr…
Thinking Through Phenomena
Thinking Through Phenomena: Theatre Phenomenology in Theory and Practice Andrew Sofer (bio) THEATRE AND PHENOMENOLOGY: MANUAL PHILOSOPHY. By Daniel Johnston. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017; pp. 210. KINESTHETIC SPECTATORSHIP IN THE THEATRE: PHENOMENOLOGY, COGNITION, MOVEMENT. By Stanton B. Garner Jr. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018; pp. 290. PERFORMANCE AND PHENOMENOLOGY: TRADITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS. Edited by Maaike Bleeker, …
Getting on with Things
Getting on with Things: The Currency of Objects in Theatre and Performance Studies Andrew Sofer (bio) Performing Objects and Theatrical Things. Edited by Marlis Schweitzer and Joanne Zerdy. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014; pp. 264. Shakespeare, Performance and the Archive. By Barbara Hodgdon. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2016; pp. 138. Theatre, Performance and Analogue Technology: Historical Interfaces and Intermedialities. Edited by Kara R…
Spectral Readings
By enlisting material objects in the service of ideology critique, materialist criticism tends to dematerialize solid objects whose historical trajectories have been lost to performed memory ( kinamnesia ). A diachronic reading of Richard II 's crown models how materialist criticism can reconstruct the ways that mobile physical objects set unstable, politicized meanings in motion at different levels of analysis. In addition to such elusive materi…
How to Do Things with Demons
What did it mean for an Elizabethan actor to perform black magic on the early modern stage? What characterized the extraordinary "symbolic utterances" that constituted black magic, at least in the Elizabethan popular imagination? Viewing Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus through J. L. Austin's theories of performative speech, this essay investigates the fascination conjuring held for Elizabethan audiences, tracing its unnerving performative po…
Performing Glam Rock
Reviewed by: Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music Andrew Sofer Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music. By Philip Auslander . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006; pp. 259. $60.00 cloth, $60.00 paper. Partly because of its origins in theatre studies, performance studies has had little to say about pop musicians as performers. Applying performance analysis to the musical personae crafted …
Lysistrata (review)
Stepping down as artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre after twenty-two years, Robert Brustein conceived reviving Aristophanes' ribald antiwar comedy, Lysistrata, as a raucous farewell bash. The new musical adaptation would reunite key members of the ART family: lead actor Cherry Jones, director Andrei Serban, set designer Michael H. Yeargan, and adapter Larry Gelbart, author of the Plautus-derived hit A Funny Thing Happened on the …
How to Do Things with Demons
What did it mean for an Elizabethan actor to perform black magic on the early modern stage? What characterized the extraordinary "symbolic utterances" that constituted black magic, at least in the Elizabethan popular imagination? Viewing Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus through J. L. Austin's theories of performative speech, this essay investigates the fascination conjuring held for Elizabethan audiences, tracing its unnerving performative po…
Lysistrata (review)
Stepping down as artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre after twenty-two years, Robert Brustein conceived reviving Aristophanes' ribald antiwar comedy, Lysistrata, as a raucous farewell bash. The new musical adaptation would reunite key members of the ART family: lead actor Cherry Jones, director Andrei Serban, set designer Michael H. Yeargan, and adapter Larry Gelbart, author of the Plautus-derived hit A Funny Thing Happened on the …
Performing Glam Rock
Reviewed by: Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music Andrew Sofer Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music. By Philip Auslander . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006; pp. 259. $60.00 cloth, $60.00 paper. Partly because of its origins in theatre studies, performance studies has had little to say about pop musicians as performers. Applying performance analysis to the musical personae crafted …
How to Do Things with Demons
What did it mean for an Elizabethan actor to perform black magic on the early modern stage? What characterized the extraordinary "symbolic utterances" that constituted black magic, at least in the Elizabethan popular imagination? Viewing Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus through J. L. Austin's theories of performative speech, this essay investigates the fascination conjuring held for Elizabethan audiences, tracing its unnerving performative po…
Spectral Readings
By enlisting material objects in the service of ideology critique, materialist criticism tends to dematerialize solid objects whose historical trajectories have been lost to performed memory ( kinamnesia ). A diachronic reading of Richard II 's crown models how materialist criticism can reconstruct the ways that mobile physical objects set unstable, politicized meanings in motion at different levels of analysis. In addition to such elusive materi…
Getting on with Things
Getting on with Things: The Currency of Objects in Theatre and Performance Studies Andrew Sofer (bio) Performing Objects and Theatrical Things. Edited by Marlis Schweitzer and Joanne Zerdy. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014; pp. 264. Shakespeare, Performance and the Archive. By Barbara Hodgdon. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2016; pp. 138. Theatre, Performance and Analogue Technology: Historical Interfaces and Intermedialities. Edited by Kara R…
Thinking Through Phenomena
Thinking Through Phenomena: Theatre Phenomenology in Theory and Practice Andrew Sofer (bio) THEATRE AND PHENOMENOLOGY: MANUAL PHILOSOPHY. By Daniel Johnston. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017; pp. 210. KINESTHETIC SPECTATORSHIP IN THE THEATRE: PHENOMENOLOGY, COGNITION, MOVEMENT. By Stanton B. Garner Jr. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018; pp. 290. PERFORMANCE AND PHENOMENOLOGY: TRADITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS. Edited by Maaike Bleeker, …
Catastrophe Practices and the Ontological Gambit
This article explores three experimental closet dramas by British writer Nicholas Mosley, part of the novel Catastrophe Practice (1979), which deserve wider recognition in the context of theatre studies' current focus on catastrophe and futurity. Mosley's enigmatic "Plays for Not Acting" promote a leap in consciousness, fostering fresh mental patterns to invigorate humanity. This evolutionary leap, which can be practiced for, is akin to a catastr…
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