The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players

ISBN-13: 9780415990929 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 172 str.

Sara Gorman Dr

Opis

In this timely study about Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players, Gorman surveys the plays written and performances directed since 1996. Touching upon the acting, production and rehearsal processes of NYC Player's work, and Maxwell's representations of space, community, race, and gender, this volume provides scholars with an important overview of a key figure in contemporary drama. Sarah Gorman is Principal Lecturer in Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies at Roehampton University, London.

Recenzje

‘…the detail and theoretical rigour of these studies will appeal to those already familiar with the company’s work, as well as those thinking more broadly about the performance of gender (and masculinity in particular), the peculiar labour of the theatre, or the politics of apparently postpolitical theatre.’ – Theron Schmidt, Contemporary Theatre Review

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Opportunity Knocks  2. Bad Acting on Purpose: Practising Intelligibility and Legitimacy on Stage  3. Passionate Indifference: Cook County Theater Department  4. ‘I Got Balls, See?’ A Study of Working Class Masculinity in the Plays of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players  5. Concert Hall Slash Sports Facility: the Anthropological Space of Richard Maxwell’s Theatre  6. Conclusion: Inscrutability, Irony and Binary Assignations

O autorze

Sarah Gorman is Principal Lecturer in Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies at Roehampton University, London. Her research focuses on contemporary European and North American experimental theatre. She has recently contributed to Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes and A Concise Companion to British and Irish Drama.