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Clockfire

2010

Talented newcomer Jonathan Ball's Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce - plays in which, for example, the director burns out the sun, actors murder their audience, and the laws of physics are flagrantly violated. The poems in one sense replace the need for drama, and are predicated on the idea that modern theatre lacks both 'clocks' and 'fire' and thus fails to offer its audiences immediate, violent engagement. They sometimes resemble the scores for Fluxus 'happenings,' but they replace the casual aesthetic and DIY simplicity of Fluxus art with something more akin to the brutality of Artaud’s theatre of cruelty. Italo Calvino as rewritten by H. P. Lovecraft, Ball’s 'plays' break free of the constraints of reality and artistic category to revel in their own dazzling, magnificent horror.

Authors

Jonathan Ball

Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
C811/.6
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
22
General Note
Poems Edited by Kevin Connolly--Colophon Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
ISBN
9781770562745 9781552452363
LCCN
PR9199.4.B357
LCCN Item number
C56 2010eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaOONL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (103 p.)
Published in
Canada
Publisher or Distributor Number
CaOOCEL
Rights
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)slc00229732 (OCoLC)778435957 (CaOOCEL)443764
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
CaOONL

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