Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: The Futures of Performance
2. Dramatic Possibility
A Future of Meanings and Endings
Possible Actions
A Potentiality to “Do and Do and Do”
3. Withholding Potentiality
Bartleby the Scrivener: Linguistic Potentiality
Bartleby the Dancer: Live Potentiality
Gagging on Potentiality: Gordon, Gogo, Wilding, and Ivona
4. Beholding Potentiality
Minimalism: A Theater for the Obdurate Masses
The Melodrama of the Unacknowledged Beholder
Loving Potentiality
5. Actualizing Potentiality
The Lives and Afterlives of Edward Gordon Craig’s Scene
Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio and the Apocalyptic Figure
The Endless Tragedy and Comedy of the Future: Three Performances
6. Preferring Not to End
Curtain Call
Theater at the Last Frontier
The Great Medium of Redemption
Pursuing Potentiality
Notes
Bibliography
Index