The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett, and Sondheim traces the thread of jouissance (the simultaneous experience of radical pleasure and pain) through three major Theatre figures of the twentieth century.
Gina Masucci MacKenzie \'s work engages theatrical text and performance in dialogue with the Lacanian Real, so as to re-envision modern Theatre as the cultural site where author, actor, and audience come into direct contact with personal and colle.
The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett, and Sondheim traces the thread of jouissance (the simultaneous experience of radical pleasure and pain) through three major Theatre figures of the twentieth century