Publisher's Synopsis
The first part of Understanding Theatre retraces the main steps that brought theater studies to make the transition from performance to the audience to their receptive act, giving proper attention to the documentary element. In the second part, de Marinis tests the new perspective of investigation on some fundamental innovative theatrical experiences of the twentieth century. In this way, the volume collects de Marinis's essays-written for magazines, conference programs, and edited collections-from a span of almost thirty years and documents key post-semiological developments in how we understand theater today.