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Gina MacKenzie has written a highly original and entirely timely book: the application of Lacanian psychoanalysis to cinema, literature, and the fine arts has been current for more than twenty years, but there have been few sustained applications of what is, arguably, the most important school of theory of our time to theatre. The Theatre of the Real has the potential not only to enrich but also to fundamentally re-orient the ways in which we read, view, and understand theatre and performance. --Eric Savoy, Universite de Montreal The Theatre of the Real is a groundbreaking book. MacKenzie analyzes playwrights who isolate disparate dimensions of stage action--in Yeats, the dance; with Beckett, the alienated gesture; in Sondheim's musicals, cacophony--that precipitate the audience's experience of the Real. She has articulated a powerfully coherent vision of the Theatre of the Real that promises to change how these works in particular and theatre more generally are interpreted and discussed. --Donald E. Pease, Avalon Professor in the Humanities, Dartmouth College The Theatre of the Real is a groundbreaking book. MacKenzie analyzes playwrights who isolate disparate dimensions of stage action in Yeats, the dance; with Beckett, the alienated gesture; in Sondheim s musicals, cacophony that precipitate the audience s experience of the Real. She has articulated a powerfully coherent vision of the Theatre of the Real that promises to change how these works in particular and theatre more generally are interpreted and discussed. Donald E. Pease, Avalon Professor in the Humanities, Dartmouth College Gina MacKenzie has written a highly original and entirely timely book: the application of Lacanian psychoanalysis to cinema, literature, and the fine arts has been current for more than twenty years, but there have been few sustained applications of what is, arguably, the most important school of theory of our time to theatre. The Theatre of the Real has the potential not only to enrich but also to fundamentally re-orient the ways in which we read, view, and understand theatre and performance. Eric Savoy, Universite de Montreal

The Theatre of the Real is a groundbreaking book. MacKenzie analyzes playwrights who isolate disparate dimensions of stage action--in Yeats, the dance; with Beckett, the alienated gesture; in Sondheim's musicals, cacophony--that precipitate the audience's experience of the Real. She has articulated a powerfully coherent vision of the Theatre of the Real that promises to change how these works in particular and theatre more generally are interpreted and discussed. --Donald E. Pease, Avalon Professor in the Humanities, Dartmouth College

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Gina Masucci MacKenzie is assistant professor at the Community College of Philadelphia.

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