Theatre, Performance and Analogue Technology: Historical Interfaces and Intermedialities

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Heron of Alexandria’s ‘Toy Theatre’ Automaton: Reality, Allusion and Illusion....Pages 15-39
Manufacturing Elephants: Technologies of Knowledge in Theatre History....Pages 40-53
Performing Technology, Performing Reality: Buffalo Bill and Steele MacKaye’s The Drama of Civilization ....Pages 54-72
Forgotten Wizard: The Scenographic Innovations of Mariano Fortuny....Pages 73-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Fairies and Sylphs: Femininity, Technology and Technique....Pages 97-116
The Tiller Girls: Mass Ornament and Modern Girl....Pages 117-132
Retro-Engineering: Wearable Sound....Pages 133-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Shocks and Sparks: Participatory Electrical Performances in the Enlightenment Period....Pages 161-182
Modern Nation and Rural Idyll: Reconciling Progress and Purity through Performance....Pages 183-197
Spectres and Spectators: The Poly-Technologies of the Pepper’s Ghost Illusion....Pages 198-213
Recalling the Theatre Phone....Pages 214-231
‘Lyke Unto A Lively Thing’: Theatre History and Social Robotics....Pages 232-249
Back Matter....Pages 250-269