Theatres of Immanence

' Laura Cull breaks with the mutual distrust between theater and philosophy that has kept both disciplines from recognizing their myriad entanglements. The result is a creative approach to contemporary theater that also sheds new light on Gilles Deleuze. ' - Martin Puchner, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama, Harvard University, USA

' Given Deleuze' s growing prominence in performance analysis, this rigorous study of his philosophical notion of immanence is timely and valuable to the discipline. . . In addition to Cull' s, often revisionary, analyses of the theatre practices themselves, which are valuable contributions to avant-garde scholarship in their own right, this is also an account of how performance can sometimes ' think' philosophically for itself, as Cull describes it, in addition to its capacity to draw on and exemplify existing theories. ' - Liz Tomlin, NTQ

' In Laura Cull' s book, Theatres of Immanence: Deleuze and the Ethics of Performance, complex Deleuzian concepts are injected with dramatic life and manipulated with great ease and originality. The book pays a beautiful tribute to the fact that Deleuze' s concepts have also inspired artists and have brought some performances to life' . - Liza Kharoubi, Avignon University, France

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