“Novelizing” the stage: Chamber theatre after breen and Bakhtin

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While Robert Breen's chamber theatre is known and practiced in colleges and universities across the country, newer paradigms of literary and performance studies have disturbed the ground on which chamber theatre rests. As a result, some directors in interpretation/performance studies have begun to revise chamber theatre in light of recent theory, distancing themselves from some of its basic premises while relying on its techniques to stage whatever texts interest them. This essay attempts to describe and intervene in this revisionist enterprise in two ways: first, by identifying some of the paradoxes or limitations of chamber theatre as a staging idiom; and second, by outlining an approach to chamber theatre based on Bakhtin's theory of the novel.

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