List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
A Note on the Text
1. Beginnings: Being There
Touching Hands with Being
What Is Phenomenology?
Performance and Phenomenology
Philosophers on Stage
Mapping the Self
2. Phenomenology: Being-in-the-World
Some Background Terms
Space and Bodies
The History of Being
Destruktion and the Text
From Theory to Practice
Observe a Walk
Observe Stillness
Scrutinize an Object
Chart a Place Well Known to You
Unpack a Place Where You Feel At Home
Dissect a Familiar Activity
Describe a Person
Recount a Time When You Struggled to Communicate
Demonstrate a Moment When You Had an Unusual Experience of Time
Stage a Life Choice
Recreate the Instant in Which Your Life Was Threatened
Text-Character-Performance
3. Being-with Others: The Cherry Orchard
Equipment
Involvement
Touch
Being Elsewhere
Other People
- Authenticity and Freedom: Antigone
Falling
Nothingness
Moods and Faring
Thrownness and Projection
Fate and Destiny
5. Time and Resoluteness: Hamlet
Timeliness
Having a History
Being-a-Whole
Resoluteness
Being-towards-Death
6. Possibilities: Aletheia
On the Essence of Truth in Theatre
Poetry, Language, Theatre
Building, Dwelling, Theatre
The Question concerning Theatre Technology
Ereignis
References
Index